Illegal Immigrants: Depriving my Children of a Better Future

Readers,

Here is the latest commentary on the new site.  It is time that we rise up at the polls and let our voices be heard loud and clear regarding the need for a robust deportation program of America's illegal immigrants.  We are a country which should embrace the rule of law. The laws are not being enforced.  Our government is not working on our behalf. Illegal immigrants continue to adversely effect our local and regional economy. Where are the tears for America's poor citizens and declining middle class?

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Child Rapists: Stay out of our State

Readers,
A grand jury refused to indict a father from Shiner, Texas for the beating death of a man who was raping his five year old daughter.  I support the death penalty for child rape.  It is a heinous and evil act which should effectively strip the predator of any right to personal protection under the law. Neither should they be shielded from the actions of a father.

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Tammy

Children of a Lesser God

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Tammy

Yemen

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Swofford Commentary

Brett McGurk and Gina Chon: Unfit for Duty in a War Zone

The State Department claims they are standing by Brett McGurk as a man who is “uniquely qualified” to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq.  Wall Street Journal, as a professional news organization, will be forced to address the issue of a senior correspondent (Gina Chon) who possibly traded sexual favors for an unusual level of access to a powerful rising star in the State Department. I contend neither individual is fit for duty within a war zone. 

Suicide rates amongst the military ranks are alarming today. The medical assistance for physical war time injuries and for (needful) treatment of PTSD within our war-weary veteran community will be borne on the backs of the next generation of tax-paying Americans. A structured conflict in Afghanistan is unraveling slowly toward a 2014 date for troop withdrawal. Things will increasingly be presented in abstract,  as opposed to  concrete terms, as our nation comes to grip with some of the follies of Pentagon plans gone awry, whether it be the COIN (doctrine) which only tossed well within the halls of power, but not as effectively on the ground, or the misuse of tax-payer money falling into the hands of the indigent chronically corrupt in Afghanistan.  History will sift the facts. Our policies – the good and the bad – will be examined by the historians who take a peek back and provide us with their own unique after-action perspective from within the halls of academia. War is at times necessary. I do not dispute this fact. Otherwise, I would not wear the cloth of my nation. But war always costs more than we can imagine, and with the heaviest toll being born on the shoulders of a twenty-something grunt.

The situation with the Brett and Gina Show  reminds us of one thing:  Dirty hands cannot cleanse dirty hands.  The State Department can rub the PR Genie all they want. They can justify bad behavior and push forward the nomination of an undeserving man.  But we know the truth. Our troops deserve better State Department representation. Ethical behavior  abroad within the hot spots where our men may currently place their head on a rock at night is absolutely necessary for confidence in government. That is the thought that should be on your mind as you place your own head on a soft pillow tonight.

The men and women who leave their families for a single tour or for a multiple volley of tours deserve better.  Our Special Forces squatting in the cold and eating an MRE for Thanksgiving deserve better than the Brett McGurk’s of the State Department.  Every soldier who has remained monogamous to their mate under difficult circumstances, deserves better. Our nation sends us to war and tells us not to fraternize. We are to stand our watches alone and without the comfort of a shared bed.  The brave men and women who live within the combat zone, pray for their families at night, and then sleep alone on an unforgivingly hard cot, need to know that the individuals working for the State Department are also shouldering the burden of their rank with equal sacrifice.  Sure, we cannot expect men such as Brett McGurk to dig a hole with a spade, and call it a toilet; make homemade nachos out of his jalapeno cheese packet and crackers in the MRE; nor  stand a fire watch at two a.m. after working a sixteen hour day. He is “uniquely qualified”. God bless him. (Which in Texas means, "What an idiot!) But we should  demand - professional and ethical behavior, and character above reproach – instead of what is revealed in the giddy emails sent back and forth between a Wall Street Journal reporter and her sensibility-deprived State Department source.


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July 2012: Al-Somood Magazine of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The editorial team for the official eMagazine of Al-Somood is not up to speed on this cover.  It looks like a bingo card.  The images are too busy and distracting.  Articles remain much the same.

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