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FLVCS Editorial: End Profligate Pentagon Spending
FLVCS Editorial Published in Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sunday, February 18, 2018.
Ernest “Doc” Werlin’s column in the Herald-Tribune on Feb. 13, discussing profligate federal spending, made an excellent point. He is correct that we cannot continue to fund our government with huge deficit spending.
Perhaps in a subsequent article, Werlin could discuss an area where …
Pres. Trump Escalates the Wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen etc.
Trump is escalating the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen et al. Now President Trump has bombed a Syrian airfield and dropped the largest conventional bomb ever used (MOAB) in Afghanistan. Does anybody believe these actions will end the wars any sooner, or win more friends?
Consider the cost, replacing the missiles will cost …
FLVCS Letter ref Proposed Defense Budget Increase in The Herald Tribune
At his recent Town Hall, Representative Buchanan was asked about his position on funding the $54 billion increase to the Defense Department budget proposed by President Trump.
The Pentagon acknowledges it cannot account for billions of dollars in expenditures. Instead of increasing the military …
FL Veterans For Common Sense Climate Change Report 2nd Ed
Urgency and Action: Mitigating Climate Change
The Florida Veterans for Common Sense Environmental Working Group headed by Coty Keller and John Darovec have updated the committe’s important report on climate change. While the report recognizes the urgency of the problem including a threat to our national security, its conclusions are optimistic. It provides ways to …
Celebrate the Defeat of Amendment One!
Essay by FLVCS member Coty Keller.
To use Paula Dockery’s analogy, David has (again) slain Goliath. The Voters have turned out the lights on Amendment one (attached). Thanks to all of you who helped make this happen!
For me, the overriding story over the past year has been the bantering about solar power in Florida. …
Amendment 1, climate change, solar energyVeterans and military personnel should consider their vote carefully
By GENE JONES, Guest Columnist as Published by the Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 13, 2016
Veterans and military service members should carefully consider their vote for president. This election is a critical test of our nation’s commitment to the rule of law and how to best defeat ISIS.
As for defeating ISIS, ABC News reports …
FLVCS Position on US ISIS Strategy
2-22-16
The brutal, determined foe that is the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) arose from the continued sectarian chaos in Iraq following the US invasion, and it has become particularly adept at exploiting Sunni fears of Shia oriented governments in Iraq, Syria and Iran. Though intelligence estimates place active ISIS membership at only between 20,000 and 30,000, …
Daesh, ISIL, ISIS, Military Intervention SyriaInvestigate the Justifications for the Iraq Invasion
Whether the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion was faulty or fabricated continues to be debated. Although no evidence of an active Weapons of Mass Destruction program was ever found in Iraq after the invasion; just old, rusting, unusable chemical munitions left over from the Iran-Iraq War decades earlier, some people continue to believe …
Climate Change a National Security Threat
According to Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the Pacific Theater, significant upheaval caused by the warming planet “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment…”.
The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review speaks directly to the impact of climate change on national security:
Climate change …
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