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"The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden By Mark Bowden Oct 27th 2012, 14:43 Here's something you might not have known about the plan to kill Osama bin Laden: The Obama administration had considered a third option for taking out the al-Qaeda leader — a sniper drone still under development. Read full article >> "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today" by Thomas E. Ricks Oct 27th 2012, 14:26 Troubles between a president and his generals are hardly new in the history of American civil-military relations. Abraham Lincoln had to work his way through a succession of generals before he was able to find the man, Ulysses S. Grant, who could defeat the Confederacy's Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson was more fortunate in World War I. He had the decisive and capable John J. Pershing. Franklin Roosevelt was even more fortunate in World War II. He had the incomparable George C. Marshall. Read full article >> Joel Achenbach: Frankenstorm meets Frankenelection Oct 27th 2012, 12:34 It's the Even More Perfect Storm, a hurricane colliding with a massive cold front to create a historic Nor'easter that's also a Sou'wester. It'll be like a derecho colliding with a haboob. And terrible humidity. Read full article >> Greg Sargent: Open Thread Oct 27th 2012, 12:21 The Obama campaign is set to run this very harsh ad in Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Virginia hitting Mitt Romney for planning to cut taxes deeply on the rich, voucherize Medicare, and roll back the regulations on banks that "crashed our economy": Read full article >> Hidden portraits of the Cuban missile crisis Oct 27th 2012, 02:29 The Oct. 19 Style story "Amid missile crisis, the picture of intuition" undoubtedly invoked memories by many former Naval personnel as to where they were that fateful week.  It was a quiet Sunday afternoon when I arrived at the Norfolk Naval Base, preparing for two weeks of reserve training aboard an oiler. Strangely, there were almost no ships in port. The following day I played golf, and on an early tee, my ball landed in an admiral's yard across the road from the course. Retrieving it, I was startled when a suit-clad man jumped out of the admiral's bushes and demanded to know what I was doing there. It was Oct. 22, 1962, and that evening President Kennedy spoke to the nation of missiles in Cuba. Read full article >> Cuban missile crisis footnotes Oct 27th 2012, 02:29 In his Oct. 22 letter "Honors from the Cuban missile crisis," Terry Murphy wrote of the letters of commendation he received from two admirals for sending tactical "nukes" to the fleet during the Cuban missile crisis but added that he didn't know whether the Navy had them in the Caribbean. Read full article >> Gambling on Md. Question 7: Pros and cons Oct 27th 2012, 02:28 Regarding the Oct. 24 editorial "For expanded Md. gambling": I tend to concur with The Post's editorial views but not this time. Like The Post, I did not support bringing gaming to Maryland in the first place, and I don't find the editorial's reasons to now allow live gaming tables to be very compelling. While I disagree with the main argument — other states have expanded gaming, therefore so must Maryland, and the economic benefits are significant — I have another view of the process that the editorial did not address.  Read full article >> Oct 27th 2012, 02:28 Privately funded projects the size of MGM Grand in Las Vegas don't come along often, and this one will provide sorely needed construction jobs and full-time employment when the project is completed. The operation and maintenance of the casino will support numerous small businesses, such as commercial laundries, suppliers of linens and other textiles, food, equipment, furniture, manufacturing and agriculture. Everything involved with building and maintaining the casino will be transported by commercial trucking. Read full article >> No justice in CIA leak case Oct 27th 2012, 02:27 The Oct. 23 news article "Guilty plea expected in CIA leak case" should be disheartening to all who know the difference between justice and law. It may have been lawful to prosecute former CIA officer John C. Kiriakou, but it was not just. It is not just to imprison a man of conscience who helped to inform his nation about its transgressions into torture while letting those ultimately responsible for those transgressions, from President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who authored the so-called "torture memos," to the CIA officers on the torture teams, get off scot-free. Read full article >>

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