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Freedom Fighter
Jake Diliberto
Jake Diliberto is a Political Scientist and Christian Theologian. He is a Ph D. candidate from UK University of Birmingham, and is a resident scholar on US National Security. He is the co-founder of Vets for Rethinking Afghanistan.. Jake is a specialist in Religious Conflict and Religious Guerrilla Warfare. He served as a US Marine in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001 Af-Pak, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
25 April, 2012, 19:33
Three women that Mitt Romney should place on his VP list
Condoleeza Rice (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / AFP) Romney – and the Republicans more broadly – must connect with woman voters this year if he wants to win in November. The Republicans also must breach the Democratic stronghold on minority voters. Campaign politics is not complex; it is a game of numbers.Obama and the Democrats are fairing better than the Republicans are, and now its...
19 March, 2012, 20:59
Ron Paul needs to run as a third party candidate
The 2012 “mainstream” conservative candidates are a group of bumbling twits. Like twits do, the Republicans harangue loud chants that sounded good 30 years ago, but have dithered in substance. Today, the GOP front-runners are like ghosts of a bygone era, inefficient at representing Americans. It is clear to me that the GOP primaries will not go to Ron Paul this year and as a result, President...
20 February, 2012, 19:08
Where is Ron Paul?
For weeks, the establishment GOP candidates (Romney, Gingrich, & Santorum) have been battling each other over what is the next mindless government program either to continue, or to cancel. For Gingrich, his technological fetishism is the space program. Week’s back, he identified his desire for a moon colony. Yikes!!! If there are not enough problems here on earth, Gingrich wants to colonize the...
13 January, 2012, 20:22
Starting the New Year right: tools for the single life
Over the holiday season, I spent a lot of time with my friends in England, (its where I live). While we enjoyed a healthy dose of holiday spirits, the local English Markets, and great English pubs, it occurred to us …We are all single!!! Now, I am convinced that all my friends, male and female, are incredibly awesome. But how is it that all these smart, talented, awesome people are...
4 January, 2012, 21:46
Taliban Mounting New Attacks
AFP Photo / Str / Files CNN recently reported that the militancy, on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, is making dramatic tactical shifts. The old Quetta Shura Taliban (Mullah Omar's organization), the Haqqani Network, the Tariki Taliban, and the rest of the insurgent separatists have made an informal agreement to perform cooperative violence starting this spring fighting season. We should...
3 January, 2012, 19:29
The Republicans, Iran, and Obama: What we know, and what we can do
If you have been watching the GOP presidential debates, you obviously have figured out that all but Ron Paul want to go and get Iran. They do not just want to go and get Iran, but as Newt Gingrich said, “go get em and then deny it”. Yikes!!! So what does this completely aggressive posture towards Iran mean? Does it mean that the GOP has conveniently forgotten about poorly judged Iraq war? Does...
30 December, 2011, 21:23
Iraq: A Marine Corp-Machine Gun View from the Turret
Jake Diliberto in Iraq What I know about Iraq comes from my observations from the Marine Corps Humvee. Yes, I have Masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies, and yes I am almost done with a PhD from one of England’s finest Universities, but all of that is irrelevant compared to what I learned on the desert sand of Iraq. On May 1, 2003, I was just outside of Nasariya, Iraq. It was a blistering...
2 May, 2011, 17:52
Bin Ladin's Capture: What it Means and What The Future Holds
Certainly, the death and capture of Bin Laden is a "Hell Yes" moment in American history. Bin Laden's capture comes at the most prescient time for Barack Obama and his reelection campaign. The rising unpopularity of the US led war in Afghanistan, and the rising costs of war have stirred great troubles for the Obama administration. Indeed, all of us who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan...
9 April, 2011, 01:45
The Petreaus doctrine. If this is winning, than what is losing?
Obviously, the toll that IEDs have on our veterans is severe. Consider this passage from the recently released White House progress report on Afghanistan and Pakistan : “ Overall, Afghan perceptions of security improved in this quarter.In Kandahar Province, operations focused on holding cleared areas in Dand, Zharay, and Panjwa’I districts, disrupting insurgent strongholds, freedom of movement...
6 April, 2011, 01:21
A poem for Terry Jones
Oh Terry Jones… Oh Terry Jones!!! Do you want people to be nice, or do you want to people to be full of vice? Some people think your mean, and you are filling others with hot steam! Are you a Muppet? Why be so boorish? Are you foolish? Burning someone’s book…Why Terry Jones… Please tell me why? Maybe you need a hug! Maybe you drank the stupid bug!! Maybe you need a solid slug or perhaps little...
