Afghanistan this week plans to ask during President Hamid Karzai’s Washington visit for more U.S. assistance to be channeled directly to government coffers, the country’s top finance official said. OK, I’ve been patient enough with this. Afghanistan is a country that attacked us, then provoked us, then crumbled when we reciprocated. We don’t owe them [...]
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August 15th, 2011 | 1 Comment
Osama Bin Laden lived in peace and completely unfettered there for a decade. Our helicopter that got shot down going after Bin Laden was given access to the Chinese. They have terrorists a few hours from Islamabad. They sometimes like us, they sometimes don’t. And, they have nukes. We are currently on target to give [...]
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Right as Obama is gearing up for another round of stimulus funding, Germany’s Angela Merkel blindsided him some of the craziest advice Obama’s probably heard since the last Tea Party rally: “It’s urgently necessary for monetary stability that public budgets return to balance,” German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said at a press conference Monday, according [...]
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