Louis Johnson, briefly Truman’s secretary of defense, had sought to close down the Marine Corps altogether and dismantle as many army divisions as he could — all thought to be superfluous in the new postwar age of strategic air power and nuclear weapons following the defeat of the Axis powers. Admirals were up in arms over massive cancellations of shipbuilding and the mothballing of their fleets.
Then came the Communist-inspired effort to topple Greece and Turkey, the Communist takeover of China, the war in Korea, the brutal Soviet suppression of liberation movements in Eastern Europe, and the massive expansion of the Soviet Union’s conventional and nuclear forces. Only the rearming of the United States in the early 1950s, along with the new policy of containment and foreign aid, stopped the Soviet advance and saved millions from Communist takeovers.
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CNN founder Ted Turner said the former Soviet intelligence agency KGB was “honorable” — and equated the U.S. mission in Iraq with the U.S.S.R.’s invasion of Afghanistan.
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The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
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“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said in an interview that will air Thursday night on Fox. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
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The War on Terror has captured or killed many tens of thousands of Mufsidun who have wanted to come to America to blow us infidels up, as required in the Koran (and to have a good time with 72 virgins) if we do not convert and take orders from the “supreme twelfth imam”, at restaurants or even wipe out entire cities. To a reasonable thinking man it should be quite obvious that we have been saved another 9/11 style attack or our children getting blown up at McDonald’s Play-lands because of the Mufsidun killing mosquito magnet of Iraq.
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