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Two men, one Christian and the other Muslim, commit murder just one day apart in the United States. Both appear to have been motivated by their religious beliefs. The Christian murderer is Scott Roeder and his victim is Dr. George Tiller, a physician from Wichita, KS who performed late term abortions. The Muslim murderer is Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad and his victims are Pvt. William Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula who were new U.S. Army recruiters … The Muslim murder suspect, Mr. Muhammad, is charged with terrorism along with first degree murder … the Christian murder suspect, Mr. Roeder, is not being charged with terrorism.

And of course, since this article was written, another Christian Terrorist (the acceptable term is “White Supremacist“) decided to go spree killing at a Holocaust memorial. Being out of power really seems to prompt the extremists to take extreme, direct action. Brand new, we’re retro.

Tags: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, George Tiller, Quinton Ezeagwula, Scott Roeder, terrorism, terrorist, United States, US Army, USA, William Long by mike
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For all the talk of America’s growing reliance on computers, advanced sensors, and stealth technology to prevail in warfare, it has been oil above all that gave the US military its capacity to “project power” onto distant battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan. Every Humvee, tank, helicopter, and jet fighter requires its daily ration of petroleum, without which America’s technology-driven military would be forced to abandon the battlefield. No surprise, then, that the US Department of Defense is the world’s single-biggest consumer of petroleum … The average GI in Iraq now uses about seven times as much oil per day as GIs did in the first Gulf War less than two decades ago. And every sign indicates that the same ratio of increase will apply to coming conflicts; that the daily cost of fighting will skyrocket; and that the Pentagon’s capacity to shoulder multiple foreign military burdens will unravel. Thus are superpowers undone.

Tags: Afghanistan, geopolitics, Gulf War, Iraq, oil, Pentagon, United States, US by mike
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