Category: Military

Two articles that I ran into today, the first is a campaign piece from myway news.  In it Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry admits that he would have voted for the war regardless of WMD.  The statement actually improves my opinion of Senator Kerry because it was obvious to anyone who read his Iraq opinions prior to the election campaign that he was a big supporter of the war.  By making this statement he shows some honesty on this topic (something I have long sense given up finding in a Democratic President.)

The second article was sent to me by Jason Mical. Its a report by Alan Cullison on his discovery of an Al-Qaeda computer hard drive (actually two of them) in late 2001.  After reading some of the letters written by Abu Abdullah and Osama Bin Laden it is amazing these people were able to organize a trip to the telephone booth let alone the largest terrorist attack in American history.

It looks like the US is hard a work developing next-gen weapons.  This article from the guardian talks about next generation global reach weapons including drones and space based weapons.  This kind of important development is the stuff that our military will be doing in the future.  Better defense for our nation.  The best benefit is described in the first paragraph of the article:

These kind of developments have a tendency to cause uproars from the global community. This is unfortunate as they shouldn’t cause concern for our allies.  Terrorists and countries that support terrorism are something else entirely.