Iraq's infrastructure is broken. China is making them a deal: they'll help rebuild it, in exchange for some oil. Why is it that the totalitarian communist empire is making friends and money through commercial development and cooperation? How come the "liberal" and...
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US Lawmakers Keep Adding to $1.4 Trillion Spending Deal
US lawmakers have agreed to tack on another $24.7 billion in spending to their $1.4 trillion compromise spending package for 2020, hoping this extra spending will be enough to pass the spending bills before a Friday deadline. Passing the compromise spending has been a...
NBC Tattle-Tales on Trump, Claiming He Wants Out of Afghanistan
Which they take at face value and also to be a horrible, cynical thing to do. Which, if it's at all true, then it probably is for political reasons, but so what? Doesn't that just mean that that's what the American people -- the right even -- want to happen, and that...
General: US to Stay in Afghanistan for Several More Years
Milley: 'That mission is not yet complete' In an interview Sunday on ABC, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley predicted that US troops would stay in Afghanistan “for several more years,” the first such estimate offered since President Trump scrapped a...
Trump Cancels Secret Meeting With Taliban and President of Afghanistan
President Trump tweeted that a secret meeting with Taliban negotiators and the President of Afghanistan that was supposed to occur at Camp David on Sunday has been cancelled because of the Taliban attacks in Kabul that killed an American soldier. In his tweet, he...
Trump Afghan ‘Withdrawal’ To Leave 8,600 Troops
Says US will 'always' have a presence in Afghanistan Attempts by US negotiators to finalize a peace deal to get US troops out of Afghanistan continue to struggle in the face of President Trump’s comments, which continue to focus on all the troops he’s not going to get...
Episode 300: The True Story of ‘300’ and the Spartans w/ Prof. CJ Killmer
62 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited history professor CJ Killmer to come back on the show and give everyone a real history of the Spartans and the events of the movie 300. CJ destroys myths and gives us an account that we would never see come out of Hollywood. Dangerous...
Peace in Colombia and Afghanistan?
On FPF #388, I talk about the peace process in Colombia and Afghanistan. In Colomba, the new president Ivan Duque has opposed the peace agreement with the FARC. Now he plans to end funding for a program key to keeping the peace in Colombia. If the program end, the...
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