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The Contrary Perspective shared Douglas Wissing's post.
An important reminder ...
Hardly a surprise that the Pentagon has thousands of more troops on the ground than they've been admitting. Don't forget the 25,000 Defense contractors there. N...o wonder the failed Afghanistan war is costing US taxpayers $50 billion for FY 2017--more than the entire US infrastructure budget.
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A nice short video of the total eclipse. Maybe I'll see it in 2024
Satire -- it cuts to the quick of truth
http://www.theonion.com/…/soldier-excited-take-over-fathers…
File this under "cooking the books"
At FP: Foreign Policy: The scoop on troops. The Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Lubold and Nancy Youssef finally got the Pentagon to admit something we all assumed: there are far more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than the government has said. There are actually 12,000 Americans serving in the country, and not 8,400, which has been the official number since the Obama administration.
The practice of muddying the truth about deployments began under Obama, and has continued under the Trump administration. The Pentagon has said it will only count the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq who are there on long-term deployments, and not those on “temporary” deployments that only last a few months.
Along the way, Trump defended his use of Twitter and bragged that he went to “better schools” and lives “in a bigger, more beautiful apartment” than those who are considered elites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/as-trump-ranted-and-rambl…/
Let them eat Hermes scarfs
http://www.nbcnews.com/…/mnuchin-s-wife-defends-wealth-rant…
Trump's new Afghan "strategy": more killing and more endless war
https://bracingviews.com/…/trumps-afghan-war-speech-more-o…/
It appears Trump is sending more troops to Afghanistan -- the same old "strategy." About 10 days ago, I talked to Scott Horton at Antiwar.com about the Afghan situation and Trump. You can listen here.
https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/…/8817-william-astore…/
Yes. Having lived in rural PA, not too far from Scranton, I've seen similar acts of racism
https://medium.com/…/my-life-lessons-in-rust-belt-racism-a1…
Good news, perhaps, in the sense that Trump's agenda has less chance of passing?
https://theintercept.com/…/bannon-fired-trump-isolated-fro…/
As Arnold says, terminate the tumor of hatred, racism, and bigotry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/arnold-schwarzenegger-tel…/
As a people, we choose certain historical figures as worthy of being sculpted in stone or cast in bronze. We choose our heroes, so to speak, our paragons, our worthies. And our choices are just that — choices. They reflect certain values, priorities, motives, feelings. And since our values, our motives, our sense of what is good and bad, right and wrong, change over time, so too can our statues and memorials change, if that is the will of the people in a democracy that enshrines freedom of choice.
https://bracingviews.com/…/of-historical-statues-and-monum…/
Sure, Mr. President: Just make stuff up
http://www.nbcnews.com/…/trump-resurrects-bloody-war-myth-w…
"The past is not dead. It's not even past."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/how-statues-of-robert-e-l…/
