Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud’

OPSEC is what keeps soldiers alive on the battlefield

On May 3, 2016, US Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating IV was fatally wounded in Tal Askuf, Iraq, during a firefight with the Islamic State. Keating was a SEAL assigned to a quick-reaction force (QRF) sent in to rescue eleven Americans who were advising the Kurdish Peshmerga. It appears that the OPSEC or…

 

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Accountability is the solution to all our problems

Today I read two pieces written by Muslims trying to explain the mayhem taking place across the world. Both writers miss the mark. What’s happened is that every culture on earth has purged itself of accountability. That’s all. Accountability would prevent this Kamel Daoud’s piece is titled “The Sexual Misery of the Arab World.” The…

 

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Hysteria is absolutely fantastic—for your opponents

Nobody can succumb to hysteria like Americans. As an investor, I see it daily. The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 500 points for no reason, and then the very same people who panicked yesterday make it go up 500 points today. We’ve become a nation of geese. Although I’m apolitical, I oppose President Obama. In…

 

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It was a rocket-powered bunker buster

I should’ve joined the military. The reason I didn’t is that I’ve suffered from irregular heartbeat all my life, and I ruined my right arm in a fall from a tree in 1970. Then I ruined my left arm in high school in 1980. Also, until I was forty-five years old, I was a physical…

 

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The world will not burn while Nero fiddles

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” A truer epigram was never coined. While the American Nero fiddles, the Middle East is gearing up to solving its problems. There will be no World War III; instead, the Sunni Arabs and Israelis will stabilize the region by force. Impotent, dumb, pompous, vain Secretaries of State with faces…

 

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