Author: Tom Roeder
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Analysis: Afghanistan’s Taliban has influential friend in China | Tom Roeder
The Taliban toppled Afghanistan’s elected government on Monday. By Tuesday, the gun-toting Taliban leaders who mugged for cameras in the Kabul presidential palace received warm greetings from Beijing. Welcome to Belt and Road, China’s foreign outreach policy that’s ensnaring the third world. And Afghanistan, which shares a 50-mile border with China, is now a perfect…
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Lamborn calls out Pentagon, intelligence agencies for Afghanistan ‘disaster’
Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Monday called the situation in Afghanistan “far worse than the fall of Saigon,” while slamming the Pentagon, intelligence agencies and President Joe Biden. A leading Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Lamborn said the Pentagon and intelligence agencies downplayed the possibility of a Taliban takeover while…
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Analysis: It is time for Afghanistan to find its own heroes | Tom Roeder
America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan reopens old wounds that never really healed. Memories of people I miss flash through my mind. Maj. Phil Ambard raised five great kids and climbed from enlisted basic training at Lackland Air Force Base to a professorship at the Air Force Academy. Great guy, always wore a smile. An expert in…
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Analysis: Pentagon lays out golden rule for satellites, treaty should follow | Tom Roeder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a Pentagon memo released in July, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the military to play nice in space. The memo changes nothing for the American military, which has managed satellite constellations for generations. But it does send a clear American message to allies, rivals…
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Aurora police brutality victim faces ‘long road’ to recovery, attorney says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Attorneys for Kyle Vinson said he remained hospitalized and faced “a long road” to recovery a day after the Aurora Police Department released a video of his alleged assault at the hands of officers. Aurora officers John Haubert and Francine Martinez were on leave from…
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Video shows arrested Aurora officer pistol-whipping, choking unarmed man
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson has ordered an expedited internal affairs investigation into a Friday incident on South Parker Road in which an officer beat an unarmed man with his gun during a trespassing call. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Wilson showed body-worn camera…
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Veterans Affairs mandates COVID vaccine for health workers, including Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to mandate coronavirus vaccination for employees Monday when its leaders gave heath care workers eight weeks to get inoculated. The move impacts Veterans Health Administration workers including doctors and nurses who work at VA facilities…
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El Paso County deputies arrest man after 3-hour standoff in Widefield
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Widefield man surrendered to El Paso County deputies after a three-hour standoff Thursday at a Cornell Street home, the agency said in a news release. The incident began Thursday evening with frantic calls to…
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Police arrest Fountain man who they say tried to lure kids online
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs police arrested a 23-year-old man they say posed online as a teenager to lure children in what detectives call a sexual assault case. Christian M. Banks of Fountain was held at the El Paso County jail Friday without bail, according to jail records.…
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Analysis: Cleveland, Space Force share Guardians moniker; jokes ensue | Tom Roeder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Space Force jokes started as soon as the new name for Cleveland’s baseball team was announced Friday. “Cleveland Indians switch to Guardians, doubling size of Space Force,” one wry observer wrote. “Cleveland joins Space Force, use of bats outlawed as dangerous,” another cracked. At…