Michael Yon, author of Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers Is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope, spent more time embedded with U.S. and British combat troops in Iraq than any other correspondent. Michael Yon has changed his focus to Afghanistan.
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Say what you want about GWB -- history will record he kept us safe by leading with a radical domestic plan (Patriot Act, Gitmo, warrantless seaches, eavesdropping, banking, ect, ect) and an even more radical foreign policy: the Bush Doctrine. The advance of democracy.
What will Obama do? Does he have character? If forced into a decision between doing whats right, and possibly becoming unpopular at home and abroad for it or doing whats clearly wrong just to remain popular with the people, which do you think Obama will choose? Within 6 months we will have our answer.
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232 years ago, this is who we were. . .
"A republic, if you can keep it." ~ Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"
232 years later, this is what we have become. . .
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/war-...a-we-rule.html