PICAYUNE — Huffington Post reports: "Senate Republicans stand behind President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., which will prevent the war from becoming a ‘domestic political football’ like the war in Iraq.”
That’s a good thing? What’s the point of free speech for a free people if the most urgent order of government business — a worse-than-pointless bankrupting war that is junking our military capabilities while killing and maiming Americans in uniform — is seen by a leading elected official as a "domestic political football” to be sidelined and sat on?
The story continues: "’The good news about this war — if there’s any good news about any war — is that it hasn’t become a domestic political football like the Iraq war,’” McConnell said during a breakfast discussion with Politico’s Mike Allen on Tuesday. ... McConnell added that ‘virtually’ every GOP senator supports Obama’s ...
A suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport last month has reminded Russians, and the world, of the country's continuing vulnerability to terrorist attacks. As in the past, the Russian authorities blamed Islamic extremists for the violence and promised retaliation. That reaction is certain to intensify the cycle of violence that has left a bloody trail of victims in its wake. Islamic extremists may have worn the explosives that killed 35 people and injured 168 others, but Russian terrorism cannot be blamed on militant Islam alone.
Sadly, Russians are not strangers to domestic terrorism. There were 29 suicide attacks in Russia in 2010; 19 terrorist attacks were "major," an increase from 10 the year before. In 2010, 108 Russians were killed by terrorists. In a national speech, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called terrorism "the main threat to security of our state." That is a remarkable admission for the head of a government who took power on the back of a promise to protect ...
