Secretary of State

9/11 plus 22-years

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An octogenarian, I have learned, seen, and experienced things that most people don’t get a chance to do. In this essay, I write to inform, to teach about Islam/Moslems, something that I know and understand well. Over time, I have assembled a glossary of some Arabic terms that the reader may find useful: Dar-al-Harb – land of war, battle: America What is a MOSQUE in Dar-al-Harb? A mosque is, in military terms, a Forward Observation Base (FOB) and a place to indoctrinate and train future terrorists; and a place to stash weapons. DHIMMI: Second class citizens (mainly Christians because most […]

Of Whistle Blowers and Inspectors General 1

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INSPECTORS GENERAL Whistle Blowers The ineffective Inspector General (IG) Corps is in serious need of being inspected themselves. Their stated purpose in life is to conduct inspections within different elements of their respective federal agencies with a view to find irregularities and to initiate corrective actions up to and including referral to appropriate law enforcement agencies for criminal prosecutions. All Inspectors General are insiders coming from within the ranks of the government agency that they are responsible for inspecting. They are career members of their agencies and look forward to continuing and rising higher in their careers after they spend […]

Terrorists

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Why was the terrorist general, Suleimani in Baghdad? Was he there for dinner, drinks, laughs and to tour the sights? President Trump has stated that Suleimani was there to plan something against Americans and American assets. Assuredly it was not about planting IEDs. He was there to plan something both audacious and spectacular. If President Trump was more specific, he might give away intelligence sources. No longer a part of government, I am allowed to speculate based on my long years of personal experience in the Middle East and now at home observing Iran using publicly available information. Suleimani had […]

War with Iran

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Middle East Wars, Round Whatever By James E. Horn The next round is coming, and I suspect it will be within the next 30-days. Israel became independent in 1948, fought a war over the Suez with Egypt in 1956, the Six Day War in 1967, and the Yom Kippur War in 1973 along with a number of incursions into Gaza and Lebanon. Whenever the Islamists have attacked Israel, they have lost. Yet they continue to threaten and attack again and again. It is a part of what they are – a pack of barbarians bent on the destruction of Israel, […]

Deep Fake 1

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS ESSAYJanuary/February 2019 Issue Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics By Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an event. At a time when partisans can barely agree on facts, such persuasiveness might seem as if it could bring a welcome clarity. Audio and video recordings allow people to become firsthand witnesses of an event, sparing them the need to decide whether to trust someone else’s account of it. And thanks to smartphones, […]

AS 2017 ENTERS ITS TWILIGHT

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It’s December already! Will 2018 be much different? The City of San Francisco collectively murdered Kate Steinle and turned the tool of their ugliness loose this week. I believe that some vigilante justice is in order where extra-legal actions could be taken regarding the politicians who made San Francisco into such a disgusting pit of depravity. As went Rome, so shall go San Francisco. There will be consequences: The Department of Justice plans to arrest the triggerman and deal with him appropriately. In this connection, can he DOJ arrest and prosecute some officials in Frisco for harboring a criminal, or […]

The Swamp Swallows Tillerson

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The Swamp Swallows Tillerson By James E. Horn, former Diplomat Secretary of State (SECSTATE) Rex Tillerson just humiliated himself and embarrassed the Trump administration. SECSTATE Tillerson seems to have been badly muddied by denizens of the Deep State swamp at Fogy Bottom. Tillerson failed to adequately sweep the halls of grossly inept employees. A majority of policy wonks and advisors at the Department of State are elitists from solidly leftist/liberal Ivy League colleges and universities. This means that many are ideologically stuck in the cement of arrogant willful ignorance about much of the world, especially the Middle East. There is […]

Russian Controversy, SecState, Liberals Whining + a couple of facts.

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Trump, Russians, SecState, Diplomacy, Clinton Corruption By James E. Horn www.jamesehorn.com Donald Trump won the election to be the 45th President of the United States of America.  Period.  But, the discussion, the whining, the complaining, and the lying continues. Donald Trump will be the first “citizen” President – to have never served in an elective political office or in the armed forces.  He is therefore unique and special. The collective left, the Democrats, the Islamists, the Communists, and the Socialists (DICS) went off, over the edge spewing their vitriol, shrill lies, and hatred, and doing all that they can to […]