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Reporter Lara Logan brings ominous news from Middle East
Chicago-Sun Times ^ | 10/07/12 | LAURA WASHINGTON

Posted on 10/08/2012 5:55:43 AM PDT by listenhillary

This was no ordinary rubber chicken affair. That was my reaction to the extraordinary keynoter at Tuesday’s Better Government Association annual luncheon.

Lara Logan, a correspondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” delivered a provocative speech to about 1,100 influentials from government, politics, media, and the legal and corporate arenas. Such downtown gatherings are a regular on Chicago’s networking circuit. (I am a member of the BGA’s Civic Leadership Committee, and the Chicago Sun-Times was a sponsor).

Her ominous and frightening message was gleaned from years of covering our wars in the Middle East. She arrived in Chicago on the heels of her Sept. 30 report, “The Longest War.” It examined the Afghanistan conflict and exposed the perils that still confront America, 11 years after 9/11.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: arabspring; foreignpolicy; islam; laralogan; laraloganspeech
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To: listenhillary

She’s got a point. Bin laden thought we were a weak paper tiger after Mogadishu. He put 9/11 into motion. When the shtf Obama will be golfing on Oahu. He won’t take any of the heat. But some of us will have our lives destroyed.


21 posted on 10/08/2012 6:46:48 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Excellence
Last lines of the article.

In the “good old days,” reporters did not advocate, crusade or call for revenge.
In these “new” days in a post-9/11 world, perhaps we need more reporters who are willing to break the rules.

22 posted on 10/08/2012 6:48:07 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: bray

I am sorry for what happened to her, it shouldn’t happen to anyone. That said, I hope she has really seen the light. It isn’t easy for a liberal to admit their whole set of core beliefs are wrongheaded lies. She certainly has the whole ME fiasco pegged correctly though.


23 posted on 10/08/2012 6:50:43 AM PDT by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Da*n, not guilty!

Why do Western women not understand exactly in what regard arab men hold them?
The arabs that I once worked among referred to them as “meat.”


24 posted on 10/08/2012 6:59:12 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: listenhillary

Gee Lara tell us something we didn’t already know.


25 posted on 10/08/2012 7:00:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ken5050

If she feels the need for personal vengeance for what happened to her, I would not blame her. She is the living emblem of what Islam will do to our female American populace.


26 posted on 10/08/2012 7:04:03 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (We have grieved the Holy Spirit, with our Dark hearts and dark minds turned against God!)
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To: Huskrrrr; All

They just might demand a “tax” from us and offer, otherwise,to leave us conservatives alone!

To which we should reply...”Nuts!”


27 posted on 10/08/2012 7:08:53 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (We have grieved the Holy Spirit, with our Dark hearts and dark minds turned against God!)
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To: Huskrrrr

I kind of thought that when our hostages were finally released from Iran the day Reagan was sworn in.


28 posted on 10/08/2012 7:12:33 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: listenhillary

demonstrates one thing. Politically correct wars and hoping to rebuild the nations of those who have no intent of changing do not work. Surgical removal of targets? Waste of time let alone the exponential expense.


29 posted on 10/08/2012 7:14:29 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: mdmathis6
She is the living emblem of what Islam will do to our female American populace.

Not as long as there are American males around, they won't.

30 posted on 10/08/2012 7:19:20 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: himno hero

Wholesale removal of targets just isn’t going to happen. Although it would probably give them something to think about before attacking American interests again.


31 posted on 10/08/2012 7:19:54 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary

How many precious lives did we lose beating the Taliban into pulp? And now, what’s left is making “deals” with the Obama administration and Karzai? When did Americans get struck so stupid as to even CONSIDER re-electing this war criminal, Obama?

Isn’t that what he said? Once he was re-elected, he would have a “free hand”? I’m sure he meant that for more than Putin’s ear...


32 posted on 10/08/2012 7:29:43 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: listenhillary

Frankly? I think Islam is man kinds cancer that should be irradiated. Guaranteed, once the cave people/ savages have the weapons that is how they will deal with us.

Just give them 4 more months and you will see their first step with Israel, assuming Israel does not intervene first.

Whatever they try to do to Israel will be what is in store for us.


33 posted on 10/08/2012 7:33:38 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Navy Patriot
Logan hopes that America will “exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it.”

Other than the fact that our consulates and embassies are not American soil, Logan seems to get it. It would be great if more people in actual authority were as clear-sighted.

34 posted on 10/08/2012 7:37:22 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: listenhillary

Ka-BOOM!!


35 posted on 10/08/2012 7:43:54 AM PDT by cookcounty (Kagan and Sotomayor side with Joe Wilson: -------Obama DID lie!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

I was under the assumption that all embassies were on their country’s soil. IE: Canadian embassy in Kiev is Canadian soil etc.


36 posted on 10/08/2012 7:46:54 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

Bump.


37 posted on 10/08/2012 7:50:39 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: listenhillary

The ME situation seems to resemble the previous Carthage “problem” more and more each day.


38 posted on 10/08/2012 8:35:02 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: listenhillary

Rush Limbaugh just mentioned this powerful speech.


39 posted on 10/08/2012 10:33:14 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (HH: "Obama just doesn't really understand what he was talking about on subject after subject")
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To: Sicon

“Not as long as there are American males around, they won’t.”

Have you not noticed how few of those are left? We have more ‘metrosexuals’ than males these days.


40 posted on 10/08/2012 10:42:21 AM PDT by EDINVA
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