My 9/11 Story

9/11 Stories

Do you remember 9/11?  I mean, really remember it? I was a channel manager for Qwest Communications at the time.  My morning commute was from Centreville, VA about 20 miles into Arlington, VA.  The Qwest building is in an area called Ballston, just a couple miles from DC. I was on Route 50 traveling East [...]

Bin Laden Dead – A Little Context

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He’s dead.  Great.  Chalk another one up.  This event churns up all kinds of interesting discourse and it desperately needs some context. Sunday night about 11:00 I was reading in bed.  Ironically, I was re-reading Protect and Defend – one of Vince Flynn’s best works.  Anyway, I hear the wife call from downstairs, “they got [...]

The Solution for Afghanistan

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The headline is stark: Afghan President Hamid Karzai Confirms Peace Talks With Taliban I’m almost inclined not to write another word, since this headline speaks for itself. But we all know that’s not gonna happen…. The original intent behind going to Afghanistan was to rout out and kill the elements that allowed the 9/11 terrorists [...]

Conservative Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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The Conservative line is that we need to take the fight to the terrorists.  This makes sense; wipe them out wherever they are and mitigate the risk to humanity posed by their infectious presence on earth.  Send em to the hereafter, I say. Clear thinking Americans largely agree with this.  Hunt them down and kill [...]