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Excellent Video: Think of the Katangese as Israel, and Patrice Lumumba and the Central Congolese government as the PLO/PA/HAMAS. The UN, of course, plays the same role as ever...to bring about a world government dominated by socialists and communists. Description: UN troops wage an unprovoked war against anti-communist Katanga in 1960 and 1962. The last bastion of the free market in the Congo was decimated by UN forces in 1963 to bring it under Congolese communist control. If you don't want to watch the entire thing (an early 1960's documentary), fast forward to the end where Katanga's ill-fated and heroic...

In a Chicago Tribune op-ed published Friday, Army Maj. Kyndra Rotunda, a former legal advisor at Guantanamo and prosecutor with the Office of Military Commissions, argues that because of the latest Supreme Court ruling on the terrorist detainees, "military commanders must justify battlefield captures and prove to a U.S. judge that decisions they made on the ground -- in a faraway land during a battle -- were justified" and thus the decision "puts American troops at risk and will lead to more U.S. deaths on the battlefield because it makes it more difficult for soldiers to detain the enemy." Rotunda,...