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The Taliban has been seizing territory in Afghanistan at an alarming rate, having captured all or parts of 10 provincial capitals from the Afghan National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) in the past week. Far from representing a reason for Joe Biden to halt the withdrawal, however, this rapid deterioration in Afghan security has exposed the bankruptcy of US policies for at least the past 15 years – and the stark unwillingness to tell the truth by a generation of senior US leaders. After President Bush’s initial objectives of disrupting al-Qaida and punishing the Taliban were accomplished by March 2002, the...

Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 Email This Article Print This Article Print All Articles Russia has fielded two more nuclear-capable Topol-M ICBM systems in silos, RIA Novosti reported on Friday (see GSN, Dec. 6). "The new systems, which are part of the new sixth regiment of silo-based Topol-Ms in service with the Tatishchevo Missile Division near Saratov in southwestern Russia, were deployed on December 14," Russian strategic missile forces head Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said. In addition to 52 Topol-M systems placed in silos, Russia maintains 18 mobile launchers for the weapon, RIA Novosti reported. Russia intends to furnish eight more...

Has the Haitian government collapsed into oblivion? Is it now represented by gangs with machetes? Is the United States the defacto government of Haiti today? Will the United States be the defacto government of Haiti in six months? Should it be?

Recent votes by Congressional Democrats demonstrate voters made a mistake by giving them control of Congress. Democrats (or is it Dumocrats?) want to unconstitutionally take over the president's power as commander-in-chief by foolishly imposing a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. A poker player who told the other players he would fold if they continued raising would lose because his opponents would only have to continue raising to win. Congressional "Dumocrats" are telling al-Qaida and other terrorist groups in Iraq that they only need to keep fighting a short time more and the U.S. will pull out and allow them...

AL TAQADDUM, Iraq(June 24, 2005) -- At 21 years of age Zuzana Drahosova left her native country of Slovakia for America. Focused on a better life, she had the U.S. Navy in mind. After paying for an extension on her visa, Drahosova had $80 to her name and began working three jobs trying to build up enough money to survive and eventually obtain a “green card” so she could enter the military service. “It was tough,” said Drahosova, who called Pensacola, Fla., home at the time. “The first year I lived in America I worked all the time. I never...

Psalm 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.