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UAE accuses Iran of missile, drone attacks
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... The United Arab Emirates activated its missile alert system for the first time since a cease-fire between the United States and Iran in April, accusing Iran of launching missile and drone attacks Monday.

The UAE's Ministry of Defense said its air defense system was "actively engaging" the threats from Iran.

"MOD asserts that the sounds heard across the country are the result of ongoing engaging operations of missiles and" unmanned aerial vehicles, the department said in a post on X.

"The public is urged to remain calm and follow the safety and security instructions issued by relevant authorities."

Officials in Fujairah, UAE, blamed a fire at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone on an Iranian attack. ...

The UAE is just to the south of Iran, on the other side of the Persian Gulf, and has a critical position along the Strait of Hormuz.

It's unclear how the attacks may affect the shaky cease-fire between Iran and the United States. ...



The Russian oligarchs ain't a happy bunch right now: "Give to me rubles"

But American and Israeli billionaires are doing just fine, thanks for asking!

For those of you accusing Platner of Nazi tendencies, try actually listening to the guy. Here he is on Jon Stewart's podcast for about an hour. www.youtube.com

His referring(@ about 25:30) to an FDR letter from '28 about the state of the Democratic Party is a real eye opener.

No surprise about the The Grey Lady: NYT: Subtle Defender of the Matrix

The NYT Yellow Journalism helped sell the Islamophobic WMD hunt in Iraq.

And look where the GWOT got the hardworking American taxpayer people since 2001: Still no money for universal healthcare, but billions of dollars to kill Muslims in USCENTCOM AOR and for our Soldiers, plenty of TBI, PTSD, and Gold Star families.

"Remember the Maine!"

More from the OpEd ...

... The Defense Department, Mr. Hegseth proclaims in his video canceling Harvard, needs "leaders who can wrestle with multiple viewpoints," not useless "ideological automatons." But cutting ties to these universities is less likely to produce independent thinking, and ironically, more likely to produce the very ideological automatons the Secretary decries.

The inferences are direct. Secretary Hegseth apparently believes his officers are not just impressionable, but ideologically brittle. He implies that years of operational experience, command responsibility, and professional military education can be undone by seminar discussions and exposure to alternative policy perspectives. He subtly suggests that the same men and women entrusted with lethal authority and national secrets cannot be trusted with a syllabus.

That is not a serious critique of an academic institution. It is a tacit indictment of the military officer corps by the Secretary of Defense.

As a former commissioned officer himself, Mr. Hegseth knows that military officers are not plucked from obscurity and handed commissions as a social experiment. They are trained, screened, evaluated, promoted, and tested repeatedly. The system prizes resilience, independent judgment, intellectual rigor, and moral steadiness under pressure. Those selected for competitive graduate programs " whether at Harvard or elsewhere " are typically among the most capable in their cohorts.

And yet Secretary Hegseth proclaims that graduate school might unravel all of that.

Despite the Secretary's unfounded logic, elite education doesn't weaken a military officer's character; it strengthens it.

I speak from experience. I am a veteran military officer and a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. I am also a registered Republican and a gun owner. I did not arrive in Cambridge confused about my political identity. I did not leave with it erased or chastened.

At no point during my time at Harvard did I feel ostracized or vilified for holding views different from many of my peers. I encountered disagreement. Robust disagreement. It is, after all, a school of government.

The Kennedy School classrooms are not therapy circles designed for social and emotional validation. They are debate forums and intellectual proving grounds where you check your ego at the door. Faculty span the political spectrum, many having served in presidential administrations of both parties. Discussions are sharp, substantive, and often uncomfortable. That is precisely why the experience is valuable. ...



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