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9 Bald Eagles Counted So Far in Southern California's Winter Census

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Tiny Eagles Fan: 'I Hate You, Tom Brady' (VIDEO)

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Third Egg Has Hatched | Now There Are THREE Fluffy (and Adorable) Baby Eagles! | Watch LIVE!

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GRAPHIC VIDEO: Watch Eagles Leonard Weaver Gruesome Leg Twisting Injury…Owww!

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The Eagles of Hornby Island - Live Video Cam

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Eagles We Are, Eagles We Will Be Again

The following article is a response to Thomas Qualtere of The Heritage Foundation’s recent article “Hawks we are, hawks we must remain,” published on the Web site of The Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/02/hawks-we-are-hawks-we-must-remain/).

I rarely become truly angry when reading the opinion of a fellow human being. As should be obvious from my libertarian associations, I understand that free speech is inextricably linked with freedom. However, while I would never advocate for the silencing of one whose opinion I find little to no common ground with, I can still say that Thomas Qualtere of the Heritage Foundation’s recent article concerning the future of both foreign policy and conservatism in our nation deeply saddens me, and reinforces in my mind the importance of helping my fellow Americans gain an accurate understanding of the misguided foreign policy that has led our country into a cycle of perpetual war and violence from which it often seems there is no escape.

Qualtere attempts to address the question of where the youth of today should commit themselves in terms of creating the American foreign policy of tomorrow. “We are the 9/11 generation,” he writes. Qualtere states that we are a generation that should understand the cost of not confronting our enemies overseas, and that the lessons of 9/11 should be our call to fight for an American foreign policy that deals with our enemies where they live, rather than lets them come to strike us at home.

According to Qualtere, we are children of the 80’s and 90’s, the 80’s being “harmonious, optimistic, and thriving,” and the 90’s being “a time of peace and prosperity that neither our parents nor grandparents ever knew.” It seems that Qualtere believes that the most important things to remember about the 80’s and 90’s are that “the music was great, the movies were fun, the new cellular telephones were neat and the World Wide Web was even cooler.” Then, 9/11 came, ending America’s party.

I at least give Qualtere credit for admitting his own ignorance. Indeed, one would have to selectively remember only certain aspects of the 80’s and 90’s to have as flawed an understanding of the modern Middle East as he does.

Let’s not remember the fact that the CIA in the 1980’s taught the fighters who would one day be the Taliban how to build and employ suicide bombs. Let’s not remember that during the Iraq-Iran war, the United States supplied Saddam Hussein with many of the weapons that he would use to kill American soldiers just a few years later. Let’s not remember that it was the official policy of both Presidents Carter and Reagan to give the Afghani freedom fighters who were attempting to keep the USSR at bay just enough aid to perpetuate the Russian invasion for the sake of draining the Soviets, but not nearly enough to aid to bring an end to the conflict in order to give the Soviets "their Vietnam War," resulting in massive Afghani casualties.

Let’s certainly not remember that during the 80’s and much of the 90’s, Osama bin Laden was receiving a nice fat paycheck from Uncle Sam. Let’s not remember that during the 80’s, the CIA provided the most extremist Muslim groups with weapons, support, training and thousands of Korans as methods of support and recruitment. Let’s not remember that the majority of the Islamic extremists we are fighting today are the result of a network of recruitment that was conceptualized, financed, and maintained with American taxpayer money.

Let’s not remember that it was the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence that, with American backing, organized the Taliban in the brutal Afghani civil war that followed Soviet withdrawal from the region. And, if we are going to maintain our simple image of the people we are fighting in the Middle East as “bad” and ourselves as “good,” then it is certainly important not to remember that the Taliban was receiving US foreign aid up to the very moment that American forces were crossing into their territory.

So yes, Mr. Qualtere, if you forget this entire history of American involvement in the Middle East, cite 9/11 as the beginning of our war in the region, and simplify your enemy as “bad guys” and yourself as the “good guy,” I suppose your argument makes sense.

*Read More at Link*The following article is a response to Thomas Qualtere of The Heritage... more

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New Law Allows Loaded Guns in National Parks - Beginning Monday

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Herschel Walker vs. Brock Lesnar??? Walker MMA Debut (VIDEO)…Diaz shares spotlight…

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Eagle Fans Rain Snowballs on Niner Fans

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