Week in review-
War on Terror
US airstrike on display:
Vietnam-style body count from ABC News: 250 ISIS Militants Killed in US Airstrikes, Officials Say
The Macho Swagger Re: airstrikes is nothing new.
1991 Desert Storm:
Nation building update: U.S. gives Iraq a $2.7 billion credit to buy military equipment
Nine face discipline for errors that led to U.S. sailors’ Iranian arrest
You wouldn’t have the freedom to post your nonsense on the web if it wasn’t for decades of undeclared/unwon wars in distant lands.
NATO partner update: Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: Deaths rise to 42 as Turkey mourns
Heroin
The heroin epidemic was once mostly immune from politics. Not anymore.
“The rate of heroin overdose death more than quadrupled nationwide from 2002 to 2014…”
Has anyone ever seen the press question the US Dept. of Homeland Security/CBP on their role in keeping heroin out of the US?
Still trying to figure out how sending US troops to Iraq & Afghanistan was meant to keep bad people from coming here to do bad things.
DEA:
“James said western Washington might as well be the backyard for three Mexican drug cartels.”
Welcome Home Troops
If special ID works to keep bad guys out- how are cartels moving heroin into the Puget Sound area in 2015?
Love to see newspeople schedule an interview with the US Dept. of Homeland Security & ask:
Are passports/enhanced/Real IDs effective in keeping meth & heroin out of the US?
Standard driver’s licenses have not been accepted at the border since 2009.
Local law enforcement agencies may benefit when the US Dept. of Homeland Security fails to keep heroin out of the US-
Seattle media: Heroin busts could finance police construction in Snohomish
Don’t worry-
The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe-
State-run media update:
US Department of Homeland Security-
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Newspeople will not question the US Border Patrol at Port Angeles?
Our free and independent press has stopped asking questions.
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