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Sovereignty & Blood

March 20, 2012April 24, 2015 Barry Mahler Foreign Policy, Government avenger of blood, Babel, foreign policy, Netanyahu, simplicity, us and them

FOREIGN POLICY: PART ONE

Today we begin a two-article series on bringing some sanity back into the foreign policy equation with a look at the two most basic and sacred functions of a sovereign government. In the second article we’ll deal with the objections such a remarkably simple plan will naturally engender from those long enslaved to the ideals of bad government.

The morass that is today’s idea of foreign policy is in need of some serious realignment. When we watch the current Administration and its State Department in action, almost nothing it does makes sense to a reasonable person Continue reading →

Barry & the Navy SEAL

March 5, 2012April 24, 2015 Barry Mahler Military, Miscellaneous Act of Valor, Navy Nuke, Navy SEALs

The new movie Act of Valor has me thinking about my Navy days, and so I thought I’d take some time to share with everyone one of my two combat experiences. The first of these took place between the USS Eisenhower and a Greenpeace vessel off of the coast of Mallorca, Spain in 1988. Needless to say the U.S. Navy won that one, so we’ll move on to my other combat experience, which occurred in the Fall of 1989 when I actually fought with a Navy SEAL. What can I say – it was the Cold War, and we didn’t have Osama and his buddies to deal with yet. Idle hands, and all that… Continue reading →