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U.S. Rep. Jason Crow appointed to NATO Parliamentary Assembly
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Colorado U.S. Rep. Jason Crow to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday. Created in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly brings together legislators from all 30 nations in the Atlantic Alliance to facilitate dialogues on defense and diplomacy. Currently, the assembly consists of 269 members, 36 of whom represent the U.S.…
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Gardner, bipartisan Senate group back bill to keep US in NATO
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“NATO is as bad as NAFTA,” President Donald Trump told G7 leaders in Canada in June. And you know how much Trump hates the North American Free Trade Agreement. Concerns that the president could unilaterally remove the United States from the nearly 70-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have prompted four bipartisan senators to introduce…
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THE PODIUM: Donald Trump scored an impressive conservative record in 2017
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A great many, even among those who voted for Donald Trump, openly questioned his conservative bona fides during the 2016 campaign. Some of his most ardent supporters (see Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham) quickly migrated from being the self-appointed enforcers of “Principled Conservatism” within the Republican Party to an unqualified endorsement of the new “Trumpian…
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May: The battles of Britain and Egypt
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Jihadis aspire to ‘cleanse’ the Islamic world and force the West to submit The slaughter of 22 concert-goers in Manchester May 22 was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks. In an internet…
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May: The end of Turkey’s democratic experiment
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Erdogan now has the power to make his country more authoritarian and more Islamist On the grounds of the Turkish Embassy facing Massachusetts Ave. in Washington, D.C. is a statue of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, father of the Republic of Turkey, the nation-state he built from the rubble of the defeated Ottoman Empire and Islamic caliphate.…
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Gardner co-sponsors NATO support resolution
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U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced a bipartisan resolution Wednesday, Feb. 8, pledging the United States’ unwavering commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are original cosponsors of the resolution. “It is indisputable that NATO is the most successful military alliance in…
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Noonan: Fort Carson soldiers in Zagan, Poland meet up with tragic European history
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The U.S. military is sending 3,500 American troops to Zagan, Poland, from Fort Carson to meet NATO commitments. The Polish defense minister called the American mission a “fulfillment of a dream Poles have had for decades,” according to the Chicago Tribune. The last time American military were in Zagan was from 1943-1945. Many U.S. airmen…
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FACT CHECK: Trump gets his Mideast history wrong
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EDITOR’S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures. In trying to outline how he would defeat the threat, Trump himself launched several other false claims. He said Clinton and Obama sought to install a democracy in Libya and pushed for immediate change in leadership in Syria, accusing the pair of embarking on…
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May: The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey
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While Western leaders dither, others are shaping the 21st century Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynamic forces within the Islamic world shaping the 21st century? Jihadism is,…
