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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012. Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.

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Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents Newtonville, his first, epic novel of love and betrayal set in the turbulent late 1960s. Click here to buy

Gutsy: A Byword for Lame, I Guess
2011-05-08
Posted by: badanov

John Brennan: When President Obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this, the president had to evaluate the strength of that information and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.

John Kerry: This was a gutsy decision by the president.

Diane Feinstein: It was a very gutsy decision made by the president.

Leon Panetta: And in the end, I think that’s why the president made a very gutsy decision by deciding that for all of those risks, we had to do this.

Denis McDonagh on CNN: And it was their information that allowed him to make this gutsy call

Wendy Chamberlain: But he made that decision to go without telling Pakistan and that took some real courage, as much courage as our Navy SEALs did in pulling off a near flawless operation.

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