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ABSTRACT: If a major strategic objective of ongoing U.S. offshore military operations is the establishment of politically stable nation- states that are pro-U.S., then our current long term military engagements are unable to attain that objective. The fault lies in the cognitive dissonance that has characterized U.S. foreign policy and military force deployment since the Kennedy administration State Department essentially directed the assassination of RVN President Diem and the President ordered a concomitant increase in the U.S. military presence in Vietnam. _____________________ In January 1962 my classmates and I marched in the inauguration parade of John F. Kennedy. Six months later the President was made an honorary member of the West Point class of 1962, presented with an Academy class ring, delivered the commencement address, and defined a challenging new (cont’d on pg B-5) (cont’d on pg B-7) (cont’d on pg B-7) BUFFALO GAP May 2019 SERVING THE CONSERVATIVE (ONCE SILENT) MAJORITY OF AMERICA Vol. XXIV No.12 SECTION b R O U N D - U P N E W S Fred Bothwell America's Endless Wars: SUSTAINED COGNITIVE DISSONANCE By Frederick Bothwell*, West Point Class of 1962 AN INVITATION TO by Col. (Ret.) Ken Casper*, San Angelo, TX Ken Casper Our world is changing faster than most of us would like, certainly faster than any of us can keep up with. That means, if we are going to maintain our sanity, we will have to pick and choose what issues to focus on. Is it the deep state, Islam, the deteriorating condition of our educational system, the undermining of our moral and cultural values? Each is important. All are complex and time-consuming. How can we possibly stay abreast? How can we figure out what is true and what is false? What is being honestly reported and what is fake news? One criterion is to know the sources. Encounter Truth , as the name implies, is a search for truth, an in-depth inquiry into the personalities and events that affect our lives today and will mold the world our children and grandchildren will inherit in the not-too-distant future. The people we meet at Encounter Truth are not armchair observers who casually witness events from afar. They are trusted agents, active participants and sometimes victims of Lucifer's minions. Here are a few examples: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is an Austrian citizen, the The Online Gender-Bending MARKETPLACE--FOR KIDS Okay, before we dive into this ball of confusion, let's begin with why God created two distinct genders: Male and Female. “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it… And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” Genesis 1:26-28; 31 (ESV) God honors humanity by creating us in His own image and likeness, male and female. This story is expanded in Genesis 2, as God forms the man from the dust of the earth and breathes life into him. He then by Brian Sussman*, San Francisco, CA Brian Sussman
