Pakistan orders army to fire on US troops if they invade Pakistan again. Something about that is a little troubling to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
One thing I don’t understand: if the US cannot be allowed to go into Pakistan, how are they going to capture Bin Ladin the week before the election? Don’t the Pakistanis know how important this mission is to John McCain the free world?
An innocent woman was forced to undergo a body cavity search with a speculum and flashlight. Only Sotomayor raised a red flag. https://slate.trib.al/2TWcIN9
40,000 children lost a parent to COVID
Nathan, 11, & Isaiah Garcia, 14, from Texas lost their mom & dad from COVID in two weeks' time. Every week their grandmother takes the boys to visit the double gravesite where their parents are buried side-by-side. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-teen-orphans/
Just another reminder that the Supreme Court has no code of ethics. She'll write about how judges shouldn't bring personal feelings into how they rule, but I think it's safe to assume she won't be writing about how they shouldn't use their positions for personal profit. https://twitter.com/dlippman/status/1384105610988310529
NEW: Justice Amy Coney Barrett has sold a book — garnering a $2 million advance for a tome about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule, three publishing industry sources told me. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/19/bill-barr-amy-coney-barrett-book-deals-483028
Thank you, @POTUS! 🙏🏽
The term “illegal aliens” is incredibly offensive & derogatory to us Latinos. It’s not used to describe any other ethnicity - we know exactly who’s being targeted by that racist term.
Use “asylum seekers” or “undocumented immigrants.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/illegal-alien-assimilation/2021/04/19/9a2f878e-9ebc-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html#click=https://t.co/018SWq1AVo
The War on Terrorism is a Lie
The war on terrorism is a lie because terrorism is not an enemy, it is a strategy.
Terrorism is a strategy employed by weaker states and non-state actors when fighting an asymmetric war against a more powerful opponent.
No state or non-state actor enters a conventional war against an enemy it has no chance of defeating conventionally.
Since the U.S. has declared that it will maintain military superiority without challenge, it has done everything in its power to do just that. The US defense budget for 2008 is some $700 billion. There is no single state or non-state actor on this planet that can defeat the United States in a conventional war.
Therefore, any single state or non-state actor that finds itself at war with the United States will be forced to fight an asymmetric war. That is, they will be forced to employ terrorism.
Therefore the war on terrorism is a war against anyone at war with the United States. Therefore the war on terrorism is a lie. It is not a war on terrorism at all, but a war to promote and defend US imperialism.