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(Photo courtesy of The Associated Press)
Written by Scott Taylor
Last Wednesday, the Taliban published a statement entitled, Quick Glance at 2012.
This smug annual review claimed that NATO forces in Afghanistan have “completely lost their will to fight and (have) practically (begun) the process of withdrawal and retreat.”
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(Photo courtesy of The Associated Press)
Written by Scott Taylor
Throughout the past 22 months of violent uprising in Syria, embattled President Bashar al-Assad has maintained that many of the rebels are foreign mercenaries funded by third parties with a vested interest in destabilizing his country.
The western countries, Canada included, clamouring for Assad’s removal decry this claim as nonsense.
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(Photo courtesy of the National Post)
Written by Scott Taylor
After more than two years of almost continual controversy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project appeared to be blown out of the sky last week.
On the eve of a damning independent audit into the projected acquisition and lifetime operating costs, the Conservative government spin doctors put out a few calls to a few chosen reporters. The scoop they offered up (with no attributable source) was that, contrary to their previous unwavering support of the F-35 purchase, the Tories were now going to consider other options.
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(Photo courtesy of The London Evening Post)
Written by Scott Taylor
At a very early stage in the Syrian uprising, the Western powers made it clear that they were anxious to see the 30-plus-year rule of the Assad family come to an end.
That was in March 2011, when it seemed that freedom fever had swept throughout the Middle East during a period that was quickly dubbed the Arab Spring. Public demonstrations ousted the former Egyptian and Tunisian leaders. In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi clung doggedly to power long enough to illustrate that the popular uprising was in fact a tribal-based civil war.
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