The media headlined its most common orbit for Obama’s former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter as, “Ash Carter, the U.S. defense secretary who opened combat jobs to women, dies at 68”. Ash Carter helped usher in a new era of military wokeness. He was a timid and uninspiring figure at best and heavily complicit in […]
US scraps failed $500 million program to train “moderate” Syrian rebels
Moving from one spectacular failure to the next. Nothing that the US does to counter the Islamic State will succeed until officials examine its ideology realistically. Without that, every move to counter it effectively will founder on the unreality of the State Department’s analysis. “US scraps its $500million programme to train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels after […]
Obama’s $500 million 50-man “moderate” army: half already dead, captured, out of action
Last week they were missing. Now they have been found, and it isn’t pretty. Yet no one in the Obama Administration, the State Department, or the mainstream media seems particularly curious as to why it has been so hard to find “moderates” in Syria. This program will continue to waste taxpayer dollars. “US-trained rebels fighting […]
Pentagon orders Marine recruiters not to wear uniforms in wake of Chattanooga jihad massacre
Surrender. Instead of telling Marine recruiters to be ready to defend themselves, and instead of allowing military personnel to be armed on military bases, we now have Marine recruiters skulking about in civilian clothes, in fear of attracting the attention of the next mentally ill drug-addicted alcoholic who just happens to be a Muslim who […]
US only training 60 Syrian “moderates” to fight Islamic State, far below expectations
A previous report said: “The main problem thus far has been finding enough Syrian recruits untainted by extremist affiliations or disqualified by physical or other flaws.” And so currently there are only 60 men receiving this training. No one, however, is willing to examine the larger implications of this. The Pentagon is pouring money into […]
6 Yemeni jihadis at Guantanamo Bay sent to Oman
“If they are not securely detained, no one should be surprised if they travel to Yemen and re-engage in terrorist activities.” Uh, yeah. “6 Yemenis at Guantanamo Bay are sent to Oman, ending pause in transfer of suspected terrorists,” by Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, June 13, 2015: A pause in prisoner transfers from Guantanamo Bay […]