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What better argument is there for a well armed citizen populace than a president who continually threatens us with military hardware? Joe "Top Gun" Biden is sure fond of talking about fighter aircraft when he's on the subject of gun control. He did it again at a recent fundraiser in California: You know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than...

It didn't take Syria long to respond to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights Sunday, in which he declared Israel will never surrender the region that was liberated in the 1967 Six Day War. Shortly after the meeting on Sunday, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Mekdad told Lebanon's al-Mayadeen that his regime will "retake the Golan Heights by any means necessary, including using military force." "The Arab Syrian Golan is an occupied territory," claimed Al-Mekdad, referencing UN Security Council resolutions calling the area Syrian. According to the Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister, Netanyahu's Cabinet meeting was a...

Agroup of hard-left Democrats, led by Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler, is questioning the constitutionality of US military strikes in Libya. They may have a point. We're not under any illusions that Nadler & Co. are demonstrating anything but their reflexive antipathy to any display of US military force. But certainly it is fair to ask just what Team Obama is up to. Two weeks ago, the president said Col. Khadafy "must go." Over the weekend, he said Khadafy's removal was definitely not the mission's objective. Then, in Chile yesterday, the president said again that Khadafy "needs to go" -- that...

Worship Site Demolished, Pastors Arrested Demolished worship site (photo: China Aid Association) Officials put on alert to use military force against potential “unrest” by churches. LOS ANGELES, October 7 (CDN) — Following a mob attack on a church in northeastern China and the demolition of their worship site last month, the government put officials on alert to use military force against churches to quell potential “unrest,” according to a leading advocacy group. Citing reliable government sources, China Aid Association (CAA) reported that the central government on Sept. 26-27 ordered officials in “all relevant government agencies” to prepare to use military...

"If the world's navies can't or won't protect unarmed merchant ships, then it's time to train the crews and send them to sea," the group of current and former ship masters said in a statement. However, despite support among some sailors for arming merchant ships, the industry generally opposes such a move."

U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:14 PM By: Jim Meyers A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis. The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a...

Again today, the New York Times demonstrates that the MSM isn't opposed to America's invasion of foreign countries. There's really only one precondition: the national security interests of the United States must not be at stake. Thus it is that the NYT op-ed page today runs Aid at the Point of a Gun by Robert D. Kaplan, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. The gist is that while it could bring ongoing obligations, the armed invasion of Myanmar for purposes of bringing aid to the cyclone victims is justifiable...

Debate Score: Bush 3, Kerry 0 Written by Gregory Borse Saturday, October 16, 2004 Senator Kerry’s nuanced (read hypocritical) foreign policy record includes politically opportunistic votes on the idea of war (he’s for it when it’s politically expedient, or supported by Clinton, and against it when Howard Dean proves that it’s politically expedient in the Democratic Party to be against it). But Kerry has also voted against military funding every time the issue has been brought to the floor of the senate. Kerry’s foreign policy position in a time of war includes attempting to co-opt Ronald Reagan in Wednesday night’s...

Amid reports that senior officials in Sudan have directed recruitment, arming and other support to Arab militias waging a "scorched-earth" campaign against African tribes in the province of Darfur, a new poll shows U.S. citizens feel Washington should back a future United Nations declaration of "genocide" with armed force.

Now that we are discussing possible action against Syria, certain nay-sayers have claimed that Bush must go to Congress for permission to attack them. While we know this is not true, there was a resolution passed just after 9/11/01 that gave Bush the power to use military force against terrorists and the nations that harbor them. The one we used to take the Taliban out of Afghanistan. After searching with Search Engines for a while I have been unable to locate that bill. Can anyone help?

Review of Hanson's "Soul of Battle" by a reader (brothersjudddotcom). This is an older article, but I think that it is appropo for today. When a free and consensual society feels its existence threatened, when it has been attacked, when its citizenry at last understands an enemy at odds with the very morality of its culture, . . . then free men can muster, they can fight back well, and they can make war brutally and lethally beyond the wildest nightmares of the brutal military culture they seek to destroy. Such is the case that the outstanding military historian Victor...

Now what do we do in Iraq? October 14, 2002 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Now that Congress has droned through a week of largely desultory debate to authorize the use of force against Iraq, how will it be exercised? That is properly a military secret, unknown even to members of Congress. More questionable, it is also unknown to senior military officers. If there is a precise plan for action to remove Saddam Hussein from power, general officers at the Pentagon tell members of Congress that they are in the dark. This may be another example of Secretary of Defense...

Bush: If U.N. Won't Deal with Iraq, U.S. Will Thu Sep 19,10:18 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush ( news - web sites) said on Thursday he will ask the U.S. Congress to endorse a possible attack against Iraq if needed and warned the United Nations ( news - web sites) Security Council to deal with Iraq or Washington will. Bush told reporters that a proposed resolution he will send to Congress later on Thursday will seek congressional endorsement of the use of military force against Baghdad if needed. "That will be part of the resolution, authorization of use...

USE OF FORCE TO DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST TERRORIST ATTACKS -- (Senate - September 14, 2001) [Page: S9459] --- Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, we are now learning that the terrorists who attacked our Nation this week may have been planning their hideous crimes for years. In their evil and painstaking calculations, the terrorists clearly tried to anticipate every possible obstacle they might encounter. But there is one obstacle they overlooked; that is, the courage of the American people, and our fierce determination to defend the people and values we cherish. It was that courage and determination that appears to have given...