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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued the US should “secure a no-fly zone around anti-Assad rebel forces that we’re supporting” and “be prepared” to use force against Russia if need be on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Fiorina said, Well, first, we know what’s going on. Syria and Russia, who have had a longstanding relationship, Iran, and Iraq, are forming an unholy alliance. Russia’s intentions are to shore up, and stabilize the Assad regime. ISIS is sort of a camouflage. There is no doubt, that Russia will be conducting airstrikes against anti-Assad rebels, whether or not they happen...

"We adhere to Ronald Reagan's philosophy that the best way for America to achieve peace in this dangerous world is to remain strong." --Duncan Hunter, Honorary Chairman Peace Through Strength stands for: 1. An American Military equipped and sized to defeat any adversary 2. U.S. missile defenses that can intercept and destroy incoming ballistic missiles 3. Enforceable U.S. borders, including a 700-mile double fence across the smugglers routes in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas 4. Reversing the one-way street trade policies that are moving the U.S. industrial bases and jobs to China and giving them U.S. dollars to buy...

CENTRAL PERSIAN GULF, April 28, 2006 – Civilian opinion leaders who visited the USS Ronald Reagan today got a taste of what it's like to be the biggest, toughest guy on the block - one whose presence brings comfort to his friends but fear in his enemies. Participants in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference watch stand on the USS Ronald Reagan's flight deck and watch F-18 Hornets take off for missions supporting ground troops in Iraq. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The business, civic, organizational and academic leaders, all participants in the Joint Civilian...

Reagan Says That Peace Depends On Support for U.S. Arms Buildup:Reagan Links Peace to U.S. Arms By LESLIE H. GELB Special to The New York Times Apr 17, 1982 WASHINGTON, April 17 -- President Reagan said today that "nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" but that peace depended on public support for a continuing American military buildup.

Well, well, we may just be able to pull off a great insulting coup at the next anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles. One of the nitwit groups that protested the Bush/Simon breakfast will be back out at the Federal Building on Sept 14. On another thread, I suggested that we gather small toiletry samples and pass them out to the smelly idiots. Well, FReeper snippy_about_it is sending me 58 items in the mail. Come on, LA area FReepers, let's get this thing organized. Gather all those small soaps and shampoos you have collected from hotels and let us insult these...

Borrowing from the line of Lloyd Bentsen, we are incredibly lucky that we have a president who is Churchillian rather than being Chamberlainesque. Had Western Europe not pretended they could get along with Adolph Hitler and took action early, perhaps millions of lives could have been saved. Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain The following is the wording of the printed statement that Neville Chamberlain waved as he stepped off the plane on 30 September, 1938 after the Munich Conference had ended the day before: "We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a...