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** THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.
– James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 20, 1788]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 2, 2021
Crocodile Tears for Women's Rights in Afghanistan ([link removed])
Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to date exceed 70,000 people.
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General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars ([link removed])
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Afghan Debacles ([link removed])
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