Category: War on Terror
A clear and present absence of danger
Todd Bensman’s America Covert Border War faces various challenges from the beginning. First, it is a speculative nonfiction work on how terrorists conspire to kill Americans. could cross the border between the United States and Mexico, although neither is known to have done so. Second, it was published 15 years after the fear of Islamic…
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The Taliban got their hands on US military equipment because we invaded Afghanistan, not because we withdrew – Reason.com
When a group of Taliban fighters stormed the hastily abandoned presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this week, transported A powerful symbol of changing times: American-made M16 and M4 rifles. It is not just a propaganda coup. When the Taliban took full control of Afghanistan this week, they also claimed a large amount of military…
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