Opinion Forum

Is the 1950 Korea Mess Relevant to the New Korean Mess?

April 6th, 2013

By Dan Miller Probably very little, beyond the differences. The North Korean invasion of South Korea began on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops — many of them battle-hardened veterans of Mao’s fights against Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists — crossed the thirty-eighth parallel to invade South Korea, initially at the Ongjin Peninsula. They met with little […]

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Tags: DPRK, missiles, North Korea, nuclear, South Korea, U.S., war, warheads
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Update: Agent Orange’s Toxic Trail

January 28th, 2013

By Jan Barry In the seaside city of Da Nang, Vietnam, a clean-up is underway to remove dioxin-contaminated soil at a former U.S. military air base. Some 8,500 miles to the east, another clean-up is underway to remove dioxin hot spots along the Passaic River in Newark, NJ and upstream, where tides and floods have […]

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Tags: Agent Orange, birth defects, clean-up, illness, U.S., veterans, Vietnam
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Two Thousandth Missile from Mexico Hits El Paso, Texas Area

December 9th, 2012

By Dan Miller No end is in sight as the United Nations directs the U.S. to negotiate a peaceful settlement. Following years of demands by la Raza that the United States relinquish all occupied territories to Mexico, missiles began falling on El Paso, Texas and neighboring areas north of the border between Texas and Mexico during the […]

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Tags: Hamas, Israel, Mexico, missiles, rockets, satire, terrorism, U.S., UN
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Gunrunning in Benghazi. For and Against Whom and Why the Attack?

October 24th, 2012

By Dan Miller Earlier today, I re-blogged a post from Arizona Conservative on U.S. gunrunning in Benghazi. It now seems clear that that is what we were doing. In the re-blog, I asked who conducted the organized military operation against the American compound in Benghazi: were they radical Islamist anti-Assad Jihadists, “moderate” Islamist anti-Assad Jihadists, […]

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Tags: al-Qaeda, Benghazi, conspiracy, gunrunning, jihadists, Libya, Syria, U.S.
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Chávez Got Reelected; What about the U.S. November Election?

October 8th, 2012

By Dan Miller Chávez is said to have got fifty-four percent of the vote. Assuming that he did, why and does it augur anything for our own election? Here are some thoughts from my favorite Venezuelan blogger, Daniel Duquenal (pseudonym) about yesterday’s election. A student of Venezuela, he lives and votes there. He also dislikes […]

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Tags: corruption, dependency, election, Obama, racism, Romney, U.S., Venezuela
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