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Megyn Kelly provided a national service in bringing those lads on her show. I only wish someone would have asked them if they provided sworn statements regarding Bergdahl, to an AR 15-6 investigating officer. A 15-6 investigation is mandated for all serious incidents. This one has no doubt been filed alongside the Champ's college transcripts.
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These people in the WH are a national disgrace. They will present any lie to the public and disparage, lie about, and destroy anyone to support their agenda. This bunch around "O" is all about defending the "ONE" rather than the Constitution--a cult of personality rules. We have ignored such in the past at our own peril.
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It's one thing to say "F*ck all y'all! I quit. I'm going home" and quite another to go off and join the other side. Shipping one's belongings home beforehand speaks to a little premeditation.
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My hunch is Bergdahl was handed off to the Klingons for exploitation soon after it was discovered he defected. Notice how the Army leadership is pretty much saying nothing? The 'Non-Disclosure Statements' speak for themselves, as does former SECDEF and former Klingon Director Leon Panetta's statement of non-support regarding the prisoner exchange.
As you may recall, the senior Army leadership has never wavered in it's assertion that Nidal Hasan's Fort Hood attack was the result of 'workplace violence.' Nothing will come of Bergdahl, Hasan, Tsarnaev, or Snowden. Trials, prosecutors, and juries have a way at getting at the truth. We simply can't have any of that.
[DAWN] THE brutal murder of Farzana Parveen in broad daylight in Lahore and in front of a crowd of apathetic or complicit spectators has justifiably outraged decent folk in Pakistain and around the world.
That the murder was carried out because Farzana had dared to marry against her family's wishes, has also brought to the fore yet again the long-lingering issue of so-called honour killings.
Human rights activists have highlighted once again the apparent scale of the problem and intelligent people wonder where we are headed as a society. Implied in this question and even sometimes stated outright is that society is becoming more regressive, anarchic and violent.
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Fred,
you picture for the article is cruel and unfair to cavemen.
[DAWN] POLITICIANS, like generals, never seem to die. They just fade away, unless, of course, they happen to be in Pakistain where they can be hanged, shot or blown up.
But if you don't upset the army or the Taliban, you can expect to be in harness well into your dotage. Indeed, the senior member of the Chaudhry clan can barely utter a coherent sentence, but still makes the headlines.
The point here is that by clinging on to their party positions, these old fogies have prevented the younger generation from rising up the ranks. Even Imran Khan Continued on Page 49
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[DAWN] SO high are the rates of sexual assault in general that many women around the world would say that being attacked in some way is not a matter of if, but of when. In the West, the recent shootings by Elliot Rodger have brought to the fore, yet again, the fact that gender can imperil one's life. And closer to home, too many cases of rape in the recent past have horrified the region and the world.
There have been some resultant gains in legislation: the Delhi case jolted India's legal system into action. Yet is protecting women from assault merely a matter of making laws and applying them stringently? No, although both these factors are absolutely necessary components.
Even more important is the need to change attitudes and fight back against the misogyny that is entrenched in large parts of the world, and is obvious in patriarchal societies such as in the subcontinent.
Consider, for example, the statement that came from Indian politician Babulal Gaur on Thursday in the context of the gang rape and hanging of two young cousins recently.
He described rape as a "social crime"; "sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong". And he is far from the first person to have expressed this view. Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose party runs Uttar Pradesh, said dismissively about legal changes that envisage the death penalty for gang rape: "boys commit mistakes." Rape is a common horror in Pakistain, too; in March, a young rape victim set herself ablaze because of her failure to get justice.
And it was our erstwhile president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... who in 2005 told The Washington Post that rape was a "money-making concern" and that women "get themselves raped" to facilitate emigration.
What is appalling is not really that views such as these continue to exist, but that they are held also by people in senior positions who craft public attitudes. How can we expect societal attitudes to shift when this is the case?
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the recent shootings by Elliot Rodger have brought to the fore, yet again, the fact that gender can imperil one's life
At which point I stopped reading an article I might well agree with -- four of the six victims were males, Sparky, and three of them were stabbed.
[DAWN] NO one was holding their breath for the results of Syria's presidential election, which was always certain to confirm that Bashir al-Assad has been given a third seven-year term by a grateful, or frightened, people.
Bleak jokes and cartoons have been circulating for weeks in the anti-Assad camp on the theme of barrel bombs serving as ballot boxes. In 2007, when he faced a referendum with no rivals, he won with a whopping 97.6 per cent of the vote. With two approved challengers giving this bizarre contest a veneer of competition, this time he achieved 88.7pc.
Still, it was never going to be easy for Assad to surpass the 96.1pc officially attained by Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the latest general to become president of Egypt on a reported turnout of 47.5pc that, if true, compares favourably with the 52pc who voted when the Moslem BrĂźderbund's Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... narrowly beat the ancient regime candidate in 2012. Morsi may have been an unpopular failure, as his enemies say, but it bears repeating that he was still the country's only democratically elected president when he was tossed a year ago.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] THE brutal murder of Farzana Parveen in broad daylight in Lahore and in front of a crowd of apathetic or complicit spectators has justifiably outraged decent folk in Pakistain and around the world.
[DAWN] SO high are the rates of sexual assault in general that many women around the world would say that being attacked in some way is not a matter of if, but of when. In the West, the recent shootings by Elliot Rodger have brought to the fore, yet again, the fact that gender can imperil one's life. And closer to home, too many cases of rape in the recent past have horrified the region and the world.
Pervez 
[DAWN] NO one was holding their breath for the results of Syria's presidential election, which was always certain to confirm that Bashir al-Assad has been given a third seven-year term by a grateful, or frightened, people.
