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How Unpatriotic Are U.S. Presidents?

…hostage affair, the oil crisis, the tanking economy and rising inflation, the botched response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (boycotting the Olympics). Bush I – well, it wasn’t for…

Ten Years Gone

…relatives in the United States, interrogating each. This was followed by the execution of surgical strikes within Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden himself was hiding. By the time Special Forces…

2012 = 2006?

…way that 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq had not. So he was weak going into the 2006 midterms. There were going to be losses. No one who wasn’t being paid to…