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Deja vu all over again

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Almost under the radar, the neocons are doing it again: setting us up for yet another can’t win military adventure in the Middle East, this time against the much tougher Iran, into which we will be dragged by the Israeli tail that keeps wagging the American dog. Amazingly enough, we will once again be led [...]

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Mercenary madness

Friday, October 8, 2010

This article in the New York Times is mind boggling on many levels: Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban, criminal networks and Iranian intelligence have been hired to guard American military bases in Afghanistan, exposing United States soldiers to surprise attack and confounding the fight against insurgents, according to a Senate investigation. [...]

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Speaking unconditionally

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Via the Washington Monthly, from the Washington Post: Since 2006, Iran’s leaders have called for direct, unconditional talks with the United States to resolve international concerns over their nuclear program. But as an American administration open to such negotiations prepares to take power, Iran’s political and military leaders are sounding suddenly wary of President-elect Barack [...]

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Has Al Qaeda been defeated?

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Juan Cole, who usually knows of what he speaks, says that Al Qaeda has been defeated: It is a dangerous thing for an analyst to say, because obviously radical Muslim extremists may at some point set off some more bombs and then everyone will point fingers and say how wrong I was. So let me [...]

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On to Iran? Maybe not right away.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

A reader (I assume he’s a reader) passed along this story (Israel asks U.S. for arms, air corridor to attack Iran) from an Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz.com, the essence of which is that the Israel was seeking U.S. cooperation to clear the way for an attack on Iran, but that the U.S. refused, buying Israel off [...]

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The Times notices Suskind

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

It is only fair that I note after two posts on the subject (here and here) that the New York Times has finally covered Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of the World. Not on the news page, but in the form of a book review. If the Times news department had doubts about the book’s [...]

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Missile defense

Sunday, August 24, 2008

One of the eternal mysteries of American domestic and foreign policy has to do with the missile defense system, which we learned recently will be deployed in Poland. The system has never worked, and indeed, it seems almost impossible for it to ever work. It is sold as a defensive system, which will shoot down [...]

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Impeach him now

Friday, August 15, 2008

We have had no access to the net, and we haven’t read the papers much, since we got her to VT. A couple of days ago we gathered from the front page of a newspaper that Bush was planning on sending troops to Georgia. It seems we have critical interests there, as we do in [...]

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Bringing the light of democracy to Afghanistan

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Via Americablog, this is something of which everyone should be aware: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation” [...]

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Iran war threat not going away.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Lately some folks have wondered if Bush, egomaniac that he is, might not take kindly to being ignored and shunted to the side during a presidential campaign in which his own parties candidates will not breathe his name. Therefore, as contrary to good sense as it may be, we cannot dismiss the possibility that Bush [...]

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