He really does-Iraq is about the Iraqis, and their failure to do anything for themselves. In the end it’s not the Democrats who are failing Iraq-it is the Iraqis not even living up to the incredibly low standards Arabs set for themselves. Help Wanted: Peacemaker By Thomas L. Friedman I
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I knew it!
Thomas Barnett points out in his blog, what many of us knew deep down. Midlife crisis is caused by women and women really do marry for money. They also prove that Muslim suicide bombers are sexually repressed…..but I think most of us knew that already. The other key ingredient is
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‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.’ “Withdraw, why withdraw? We are killing lots of them!”
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Visiting the the doctor for a physical. Or so says Jeff Huber over at Pen and Sword: The Maytag Repairman has nothing on Lieutenant General Douglas Lute. The newly nominated “War Czar” is about to become the loneliest man in the world……..Lute’s in a difficult spot, all right. He’s been
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The war in Iraq is 4 years and 3 months old. Close to 150,000 troops are now deployed there-and almost 60,000+ are arrayed in the countries outside Iraq. Good things are happening-I know so because I read conservative blogs. Its just not being reported. They only focus on those nasty
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The war in Iraq is 4 years and 3 months old. Close to 150,000 troops are now deployed there-and almost 60,000+ are arrayed in the countries outside Iraq. Good things are happening-I know so because I read conservative blogs. Its just not being reported. They only focus on those nasty
Continue readingGrasping at straws……..
Implosion(v)-In golf, it is the act on Skippy’s part of shooting a 43 on the front nine, only to turn around and shoot a 54 on the back. It is also the act of the White House Press Secretary pulling this analogy out of his ass…………. Yea , that’s rich,
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Wolfowitz-GONE! After he collects his 400,000 dollar bonus though. He will of course beam up to the Starship Project for the New American Century-the homeless shelter for the neocons and their bankrupt ideology. Still, its nice to see another guy from DOD -who failed to stand up for the right
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From the Small Wars Journal trying to place some context: What I hope will happen: increased Congressional oversight of the systems that produce our senior leaders. Also, that junior leaders believe that our system of governance is capable of self-correction on even the most important issues. What I fear might
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Worth repeating. “Given that Bush isn’t really trying any serious regional diplomacy, I can’t escape the feeling that the surge was never designed to succeed in the first place, but just to give Bush the excuse to broaden the conflict to include Iran down the road (again, the animating aspect
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