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John Burnham
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Retired Navy, former OSD
Opinions mine

Defend the vulnerable
Speak the truth
Shorten the darkness

Fiat justitia ruat caelum
That locker room confrontation between Cruise and Kilmer, sweaty with dog tags and little towels on, where Val leans in and bites the air right in Tom’s face…hoo yeah that was something
January 7, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I believe she genuinely assumed that this job was just not going to be very difficult, and given her personal appointment by the President that all barriers would be knocked down for her (and that mostly all those AUSA’s and other little people did the toiling).
January 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
What’s sad is to this crowd it’s all just a big joke - the piled up titles of jobs he isn’t doing, the memes that are actually making fun of him but this guy is taking seriously…

Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.

Good night and good luck, indeed…
January 7, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Two thoughts:

1) capturing one dude on an in-and-out raid is not the equivalent of flowing 200,000+ troops into a country to occupy it.

2) England was a big and powerful country that did what it wanted back in the day, until a scruffy bunch of articulate tavern patrons got pissed off enough…
January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I wonder what Maduro’s defense team will do with all of this cognitive dissonance flying around…all they need to do is instill reasonable doubt…
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 AM
I thought Miller was cribbing from Nicholson’s final sputtering soliloquy in ‘A Few Good Men’, just before he admits he ordered the Code Red…
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
From the reporting I saw, Maduro has capable defense attorneys.

DoJ better hope their stuff is tight.

The track record over the past 12 months, if past is prologue, doesn’t bode well for the govt.
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM