Daniel Somers was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was part of Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit. In 2004-2005, he was mainly assigned to a Tactical Human-Intelligence Team (THT) in Baghdad, Iraq, where he ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of […]
Day: August 27, 2013
Nobel Peace Laureate: “Let us learn the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya”
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an Open Letter sent yesterday by the Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire to Rt. Hon. William Hague, British Foreign Minister, and M. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, to stop calling for military action against Syria which, she said, will only lead the Middle East into even more […]
US-Russian relations: nothing to talk about
Russian-US relations seem destined to remain frosty. The recent bilateral consultations between the two ministers of defense and foreign affairs seem to have been constructive – but they were immediately followed by Barack Obama’s characterization of Vladimir Putin as a “a bored kid in the back of the classroom,” and […]
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