Stump the Chaps VIII: The Other ‘Peter Principle’

Greetings, ST, 'Ettes, and 'Sieurs! I have to thank our gracious host - as I often do - for asking this motivating question: "Do not Catholics consider all Popes to be successors to the Apostle Peter? If so, how does that work?" I'm so glad you asked, Your Saintliness! Petrine/papal primacy and apostolic succession, Chaps-style, … Continue reading Stump the Chaps VIII: The Other ‘Peter Principle’

Simon’s Letter to President Trump

This is a copy of the letter on "Winning the Peace" which Simon is going to send to President Trump. You can read more about Winning the Peace here...https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/1905, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/1161, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/1816, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/1999, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/2044, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/2090, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/2186, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/2401, https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/inuinoueritas.home.blog/2523 Dear President Trump, I retired a few years ago from the U.S. Marine Corps. During my years of … Continue reading Simon’s Letter to President Trump

The Bible and the Final Frontier

My husband and son went to DC this past weekend for a guys' sports trip - encompassing  a college basketball game and wrestling match at son's alma mater, American U, and hiking around his undergrad haunts in the beautiful spring-like weather. They went to the National Cathedral for Mass Sunday morning and were surprised and … Continue reading The Bible and the Final Frontier

¡Baby Rosita’s First Time to a Doctor, Pura Vida!

I’ve been asked by a gentle reader to write something more cheery about my adventures in Costa Rica that do not involve killing snakes or slaying señoritas. Hope you will find this uplifting. What was that again about mad dogs and Englishmen in the midday sun? I’m dizzy again and on the verge of heat … Continue reading ¡Baby Rosita’s First Time to a Doctor, Pura Vida!

Winning the Peace: Defined.

Our current “strategy” seems to be designed to make Iraq a vassal state of Iran while spending over a trillion dollars to improve the infrastructure in Afghanistan before turning it back over to the Taliban. I haven’t seen it written so succinctly anywhere but that is sorta kinda how it looks from my bunker here … Continue reading Winning the Peace: Defined.

Winning the Peace (Ch. 5)

A feel good but secondary mission is to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the citizens of the various Partner Nations. Winning the Peace (WtP) Foreign Area Officers (FAOs) may support when feasible, freedom of religion with the end-state being that a Muslim could convert to Christianity and not face death for … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 5)

Winning the Peace (Ch. 4)

Winning the Peace (WTP and/or WP – Willy Pete?), and the FAOs in the program are organized within each partner nation similarly to an infantry platoon reinforced. Platoon commander (O-5), platoon sergeant (E-8), corpsman, radio telephone operator (RTOs), squad leaders (O-4), fire team leaders (O-3), and grunts (enlisted advisors). The total number of individuals deployed … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 4)

Winning the Peace (Ch. 3)

Past being prologue, it is not likely that either the Department of State or CIA is going to beat back the onslaught of Salafism. The intent here is to provide leadership with a notion of the type of Foreign Area Officer (FAO) required to develop and implement strategy. The current “strategy,” whatever it may be, … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 3)