Bob McCarty Writes

A TICKING TIME BOMB. Those four words appear atop a report compiled by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) on the “COUNTERTERRORISM LESSONS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO PREVENT THE FORT HOOD ATTACK.” Wondering what conclusions Senators Lieberman and Collins reach in developing the special report as members of the U.S. Senate [...]

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Fresh on the heels of publishing a piece about Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s upcoming review by the Army Court of Appeals, I decided to share — with permission — the text of a letter written by Beverly Perlson — the spark plug behind pro-troops group, The Band of Mothers — to Secretary of [...]

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Only days after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates explained the systemic flaws that allowed the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood to take place, I was shocked at what I saw during one television report this morning — especially in light of what other television reports have described. A short while ago, Fox News Channel [...]

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Published under the GQ headline, “AND HE WILL BE JUDGED,” Robert Draper’s lengthy feature article about Donald Rumsfeld is chock full of criticism about the former secretary of defense and his boss in the Oval Office.  What I found more worthwhile about the article, however, were details about Scripture verses that began appearing on Pentagon [...]

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In a You Tube video today from Afghanistan, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) blasted an announcement by the Obama Administration that they propose to make deep, widespread cuts to the military budget. The announcement, made at the Pentagon this morning by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, comes as more than 200,000 servicemen and women are deployed [...]

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While I’ve been following the investigation and prosecution of the so-called “Haditha Marines” for more than a year now, the case became more interesting after it was revealed that an “extraordinarily unusual oversight body” comprised of high-ranking administration officials had been set up by former Secretary of Defense Donald R. Rumsfeld to oversee the Haditha [...]

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After reading an article, Military Fears ‘Unknown Quantity, in the Washington Times today, I’m saddened to report that a man I once respected and admired seems to have succumbed to “Obamamania” and thrown his support behind Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. That man is retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak. He is described in the [...]

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