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Manuel Noriega Returns to Panama

December 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller On Sunday, he was transferred to a maximum security facility in the jungle. After spending more than two decades imprisoned in the United States and then France, former Panamanian dictator Manuel (Pineapple Face) Noriega was flown back to the Republic of Panamá on the evening of Sunday, December 11. More than one […]

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Tags: Chiriqui, drugs, France, invasion, Manuel Noriega, Panama, prison, U.S.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion’s 50th Anniversary Is Today

April 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller It should remind us of the often neglected need for militarily realistic planning of military operations. Sunday, April 17th, is the fiftieth anniversary of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Here is an article about the survivors and about ceremonies planned in their honor in Miami. As noted, For exiles, the men […]

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Tags: Bay of Pigs, CIA, Cuba, Eisenhower, invasion, Kennedy, Soviet Union, UN
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Winding Down a Misbegotten War

August 20th, 2010

By Jan Barry As the last U.S. combat units rumbled out of Iraq under President Obama’s August deadline, Time magazine’s chief political columnist, Joe Klein, summed up the costly consequences of what he called “a war that should never have been fought.” Blasting the Bush administration for blundering into “a neo-colonialist delusion” that caused hundreds […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, casualties, cost, end, invasion, Iraq, occupation, threat, war
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