Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Authorization for Use of Military Force’

Lead, follow, or get out of the way

The United States is finally seeing the fruits of our government’s fecklessness. We act in the interest of our national security, and so do other nations. Since the current administration has decided to neither lead nor follow, it’s time for the US to get out of the way. Hand in hand with indecisiveness comes a…

 

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We must kill them

Excerpt from the testimony of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (Retired), former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), telling the House Armed Services Committee that when it comes to the Islamic state, our only option is to kill them. Today I have the unhappy task of informing you that according to every metric of significance,…

 

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No, killing terrorists is not “assassination”

Yesterday the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a piece titled “Report: Assassination of Hezbollah’s Imad Mugniyeh was Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation.” The Israeli and American foreign intelligence services worked together to assassinate Hezbollah international operations chief Imad Mughniyeh in 2008, The Washington Post reports. The U.S. never admitted its role in the killing. But former U.S. officials…

 

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