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"Slowly firmly some political leaders are stepping forward. These include Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AZ) is one, and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI).

Both of these gentlemen are deeply involved in defense issues, and served as officers in the Army and USMC. They get the danger. They know the terrain."

That comment is almost laughable. Nothing Sen. Cotton does is slow and instead he has made his living and fame from being a rhetorical bomb thrower. After reading that I knew the rest of the article would be fully one sided without much legitimate debate of the facts.

Something you seemed to have forgotten is that in the 20 years since 9/11, far-right extremists killed more people in the US than did American-based Islamist fundamentalists. We fundamentally changed American life after 9/11, as we should have, but people like yourself completely capitulate to the far right attacking and killing Americans at an even higher rate. Where's your outrage? I don't doubt that some of those programs are over reach which happens in any new program and they need to be addressed. But to dismiss this as "woke" is a disservice to the leadership who are trying to find solutions to a very real problem.

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"New." LOL ... you have a decade and a half of my writing to catch up on there RK.

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