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    Ernesto Che Guevara normally identified as el Che or Che was born on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina. The oldest of five children, Che Guevara was born in an Argentine household of Basque and Irish background. Guevara was an Argentine groundbreaking socialist, physician, writer, revolutionary leader, diplomat and lastly, a martial philosopher. Despite everything, he was a major symbol of the Cuban Revolution, whose conventional appearance has made him into a universal countercultural icon of…

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    Present Day... "I don't even know my family anymore," Larry said. "My wife's an alien, and my daughter has powers." Larry turned to Steve. "What about you, Steve?" Larry asked. "Do you have powers? Is there something you're not telling me?" "Actually, yes," Steve said. "I've been drafted to fight in this war against these invaders." "Oh, for fuck sake! I can't believe...." "Steve, are you there?" Allison asked over the phone. "Yeah, I'm here," Steve said. "How are you talking to me?"…

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    Counterterrorism is a complex topic that can be used through many formats. For example, economic, social, religious, political, military and security. The difficult aspect of counterterrorism is deciding which tactic will be most successful to the mission. Every domestic and international situation should be responded to using the measure that will produce the best results. The United States government is focused on using military tactics in a softer format and political measures. The current…

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    Iraq and Afghanistan have helped implement democratic systems, providing basic rights such as the right to education and to free and fair elections. Freedom House noted that in 2001, before the invasion, their democracy rating was 7 with 1 being full democracy and 7 being the worst. However, after the invasion in Iraq, movements were taken towards a constitutional referendum with both international and domestic groups describing the elections in 2005 as the first free elections in Iraq’s history…

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    be my school project for AP United States History. This video is a combination of comedy and nonfiction that reviews the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. This video was made to help my classmates prepare for the EOC at the end of the semester. In this video, I play the roll of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson who is the mastermind behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Lyndon B. Johnson believes that this plan is going to be a complete failure, but he convinces John F. Kennedy to follow through with the…

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    Wmd Failure

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    Failure of Detection: Iraq Weapon of Mass Destruction program The “Smoking Gun” was discovered on the Iraq Weapon of Mass Destruction program as was told to the executive leadership of the United States prior to the Invasion seen in 2003. The United States had questioned for a time, to what extent Saddam Hussein maintained WMD’s as well as the possible ability to create this WMD’s under the scrutiny of the UN inspectors and the world watching. What came after was a large intelligence failure in…

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    MA operations occur at all levels of a theater of operations (TO). The MA program starts at the unit level with search and recovery operations and continues until remains are returned to person authorized to direct disposition (PADD) and all personal effects (PE) are returned to the person eligible to receive effects (PERE). Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) is the Army Service component commander’s major organization responsible to provide common-user logistics (CUL) within the TO. TSC is…

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    mentioned arguments. Fitzgerald emphasizes that 9/11 enhanced the concerns about terrorism and pushed the US to engage in a military conflict with Iraq. However, invasion of the latter was also a mean of spreading the US power throughout the globe. In its turn the possession of WMD was just a necessary excuse for Bush to start planning the invasion and Rumsfelds’ military transformations were a mean to achieve the Iraq’s conquest. The US government promoted falsified stories, such as existence…

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    Not only does the spread of democracy serve the security interests of the United States, it could be argued that the attempt to spread democracy is morally defensible. This relies on the idea the democracy is the morally superior regime. As Janzekovic and Silander (2013, pp. 91), writes “The collective identity of Western community is based on a liberal view of human rights regarding individual freedoms, political rights and civil liberties”. Given this, it could also be said that despite its…

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    George W. Bush faced a tough decision after the attacks on September 11, 2001, whether to stand by after the attacks or to go try and get the individuals who were part of planning the attack. Going into Afghanistan and later Iraq played a large part in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush presidency. America was able to achieve success early on in Afghanistan as they were able to take over their government as they were able to topple the Taliban and put in place a democratic government.…

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