Happy Veterans Day! For over 20 years I had the honor of serving our nation alongside the best men and women I have ever known.
I am proud to be a member of the generation that answered our nation’s call after we were attacked on 9/11, which then deployed again, and again, throughout the last two decades.
During war, I witnessed normal Americans perform heroic deeds so frequently it became the standard—while back home, our corrupt political elite enriched themselves as good men and women bled & died.
It became clear, as the lies of the political class under which I served were exposed, that the only way to truly honor our veterans—and our fallen—is to demand that our leaders stop launching our country into foolish wars of choice.
It’s time to chart a new path forward, one that rejects foolish wars & puts America first.
Yes Mark, the Israeli lobby won the argument with their lies & led us into this war.
Last Tuesday the American people expressed their rage at this foolish war & voted for us to get out of it.
It’s time to tune out the lobbyists & listen to the American people & end the war.
This is CENTCOM inviting Iran to escalate while the Vice President is attempting to negotiate with the Iranians. This is, as CENTCOM calls it, “policy by CONOP,” when the military finds a way to subvert the White House without blatantly disobeying the President, by taking actions that will ensure a war escalates or perpetuates.
This tactic was implemented over & over again in the War on Terror in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. Many Americans died, needlessly.
The Iranians have made it clear that they won’t accept negotiations while under threat of escalation. Iranian leadership has stated there will either be war or there will be peace, but they will not sit idly by and wait for the next attack & they won’t tolerate being slowly strangled by sanctions.
Imposing more sanctions, & publicly broadcasting that we’re imposing more sanctions, is brash provocation.
The midterm results sent a message that the President should find impossible to ignore: the American people do not support this war. We want out. The VP is currently in negotiations to end it, & a new Chief of Staff was chosen under the auspices of helping the President do just that.
CENTCOM announcing this escalation is the military working directly against what President Trump is attempting to accomplish. If the President had any desire to escalate, he’d simply do it. Instead, thankfully it appears he is attempting more diplomacy, and CENTCOM must support that.
It’s become abundantly clear that the President needs to install a new national security team, one that’s not tied to starting the war and that can instead end it. To do that, he needs people who can & will get the national security state under control, not submit to it.
CO2 is very real. Beer tastes awful without it.
It is invisible and odorless and your delusions about it causing bad weather are just another superstition. You are victim of propaganda.
I wrote this editorial in the Santa Fe paper thirteen years ago, explaining that drought is the normal climate for the state and that unusually wet periods like the late 20th century were the anomaly, not the norm.
@thenewmexican
https://t.co/SJqddHQqKU
Ice ages begin when atmospheric CO2 is high, and they end when CO2 is low. This is the exact opposite behavior of what occur if CO2 controlled the climate.
https://t.co/hRpfdyhGG3
Arctic sea ice coverage is about the same as it was 55 years ago. How long can they keep this scam going?
2026:
https://t.co/C5E9iZg13C
1971:
https://t.co/N4fMRzJLQD
Nineteen years ago this week @algore was chosen to receive the @NobelPrize for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased 22%.
https://t.co/rnQJuPCz8n
https://t.co/NekArUA38T
Sea level at Stockholm, Sweden has declining for a long time. This means @GretaThunberg has to walk further to the beach than she used to.
https://t.co/LEJ4wlOio4