Tag: Colin Powell

Joachim Hagopian, A Retrospective Look at US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III

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Joachim Hagopian My freshman roommates at West Point, John Abizaid and Karl Eikenberry, ended up commanding generals in charge of losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then rewarded with membership to the notorious Council on Foreign Relations and US ambassadorships in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan respectively. Our alma mater, the famous brass factory on the Hudson since 1802, in recent decades is notorious for churning out cookie-cutter, rotten to the “Corps” leadership, disgracefully losing every American war since World War II by diabolical elite design. I’ve written extensively about all these leaders in…

Stephen Eric Bronner, Afghanistan’s Footprint

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By Stephen Eric Bronner In Memory of Stanley Aronowitz ormer secretary of state Colin Powell’s “pottery barn rule” applies: “You break it, you own it!” Perhaps: but then you can always throw “it” away. That’s what occurred in Afghanistan, known as “the graveyard of empires” because it has historically been difficult to govern and more difficult to conquer. The United States sent in a raiding party to capture Osama bin Laden following 9/11/2001 and then, like “the man who came to dinner,” remained for 20 years – just long enough…