It seems pretty clear that Barack Obama came into the presidency intending to extricate the United States from its foreign wars. There were two at the time, Iraq and Afghanistan. Today there are five. From Politico: Obama pledged in his 2013 inaugural address that “a decade of war is now
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The Disaffected Lib: The Three Eras of Canada’s Democracy or How We Got to Where We Are Today.
I first voted in the 60s and I’ve watched Canadian democracy evolve, not always in a good way, ever since. I’ve witnessed three political eras in my lifetime. There was an era of rights and freedoms, the years of Diefenbaker, Pearson and Trudeau. Some might not realize it but Diefenbaker
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Seven Deadly Traits of a Permanent Warfare State
Classic military science holds that war is a state of affairs that exists between periods of peace. In other words, war is intended to achieve peace on terms acceptable to the victor. War is not an end unto itself. Well, guess what? That was then, this is now and, today,
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