By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution

U.S. Marines are participating in a training exercise that aims to adapt the investigative techniques the Los Angeles police have used for decades against violent street gangs to take on the Taliban more as a powerful drug-trafficking mob than an insurgency.

Dozens of Camp Pendleton Marines took part in a training exercise that aims to adapt the investigative techniques the LAPD has used for decades against violent street gangs to take on the Taliban more as a powerful drug-trafficking mob than an insurgency.
"People are the center of gravity and if you do everything you can to protect them, then they'll protect you," he said. "That's something true here and pretty much everywhere."
Crime here increases with summer's heat, he said, encouraging Lt. Abbott to identify the violence-trigger in Afghanistan, such as at the end of the poppy harvest.