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Akagi2 Wrote: Jan 05, 2010 12:09 PM

"Even Condi Rice couldn't do anything with them. State is supposed to promote the best interests of the United States, but mostly spends its time lecturing us on how insensitive we all are to the rest of the world. Fire the entire department and start over I say."

No fan of State, but they do promote the US interests or at least the interest as formulated by the current administration. How many employees of State have you actually talked to or been briefed by?

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One First Line of Defense

Instead of the typical slow holiday news cycle, the week between Christmas and New Year's featured near non-stop coverage of the Christmas Day terrorist attack on Delta Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam. Yet in all of the talk, one aspect was relatively unexplored: The brave actions of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the respected Nigerian banker who contacted American authorities to report his son’s disturbing radicalization, and what the U.S. government's failure to take his warnings seriously means for others who might be considering reporting love ones who have joined the jihad.