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S.L. Ray, an independent journalist and intelligence specialist, writes from Whitefish, Montana.
Is the past really a foreign country? Did they do things so differently then? Or is it that the past isn’t dead after all—and isn’t even past?
On August 31, President Obama announced that he would seek congressional approval for military action against Syria, in response to chemical-weapons attacks that took place outside Damascus ten days earlier.
It’s interesting that in 2009, as Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater USA, was distancing himself from his creation, one witness in the numerous federal investigations of Blackwater claimed that the company’s contractors requested that he procure steroids and other drugs for them and invited him to all-night cocaine- and hashish-fueled parties at Baghdad’s Al-Hamra hotel.
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