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Today's Fresh Blogs...| This I No Longer Believe: 5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:12 am |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| Cultural historian Paul Fussell once noted that no one prior to World War I could have conceived of how many illusions it would shatter by the time it ended. No war since has affected the world so profoundly, much less... |
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| State Department Rebukes Tancredo |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 3:01 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| According to CNN, Rep. Tom Tancredo's (R-CO) campaign "stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good deterrent to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States." "Tom Casey, a deputy spokesman for the State Department, told CNN s Elise Labott that the congressman s comments were |
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| Report: Iran Less Than 10 Years Away From 2016 |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 2:03 am |
| Tags: International, News In Brief, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Iran |
| WASHINGTON, DC—According to an alarming new Department of Defense report combining civilian, military, and calendric evidence, Iran may be... |
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| A Sane Re-Start for the Iraq Debate |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:41 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs, War, Iraq, Sunnis, Muslims, Henry Kissinger, Al Qaeda, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Radical Islam, Withdrawal, Bush Administration, Mideast |
| After all the wishful thinking and political posturing on all sides, a basis for serious discussion makes the tenuous case for staying in Iraq while scaling down our presence. The report urging strategic patience is by Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank chaired by former Democratic |
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| Old Man & The War: The Lost Years |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 3:46 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs, Iraq, George W Bush, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Withdrawal, Moktada Al Sadr, Military Affairs |
| Think of the Iraq war as an old man. This old man would like nothing more than to go out in a blaze of glory. But his life is dominated by fights with a sister in law, and as he shuffles around his thoughts frequently turn melancholy as he thinks back to when he was young, full of piss and vinegar and the world was his red, white and blue oyster. |
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| He Was Better Than Putin, Anyway |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 5:25 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| Cathy Young misses Boris Yeltsin. And so do I. Key passage: One little-noted aspect of Yeltsin's presidency was his decisive rejection of the Soviet period. He came to understand that Russia needed to make a clean break with the Soviet legacy. In 1992, when Russian communists sued to contest his 1991 ban on the Communist Party |
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| U.S. Officials Stopped Pakistan's Musharraf From Imposing State Of Emergency |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 3:28 am |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Bush Administration, Foreign Policy |
| A Washington Post op-ed piece reports that Pakistan almost went into a state of emergency last week — until U.S. officials intervened: President Pervez Musharraf was on the verge of imposing a state of emergency in Pakistan last week before being stopped by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and civilian advisers. It is clear to all in |
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| Howard urges Iraq to follow soccer team's lead |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 8:17 pm |
| Tags: Government Politics, Federal Government, Foreign Affairs, Australia |
| Prime Minister John Howard says Iraqis should follow the example of their nation's Asian Cup-winning soccer team as they struggle to lift their country from the mire of sectarian conflict. |
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| Flashback of the Day |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 9:41 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| A C-SPAN interview with Dick Cheney in 1994 shows he predicted a quagmire in Iraq if the United States invaded and toppled Saddam Hussein. He even asks, "How many additional dead Americans is Saddam Hussein worth?" and answers himself saying, "Not very many." |
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| Downer says Labor candidate's Iraq comments offensive |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Defence National Security, Defence Forces, Army, Government Politics, Federal Government, Foreign Affairs, Labor Party, Unrest Conflict War, Australia, Iraq |
| Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has criticised a former high-ranking Army officer who has described Australia's involvement in Iraq as "window dressing". |
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| More on Rudy Giuliani's Foreign Policy |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 3:35 pm |
| Tags: Counter Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy |
| from last night on Giulian's foreign policy essay, the wonks at Democracy Arsenal have some fun at Rudy's expense. Apparently it's not so serious yet seeing that he's so far away from even being considered a candidate and even further away from scaring the hell out of everyone and then playing Mayor of US during the '08 election. Here are some |
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| Forget Bush's mid-September Report, Look for the GAO's |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 11:06 pm |
| Tags: Wot, Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs |
| The LA Times reveled some insight on what we can expect mid-September in the report on the presidents "surge" in Iraq. It also reminded anyone remotely paying attention that the mid-September report--misleadingly referred to as the Petraeus-Crocker report--will be a political document written for, and only for, misleading the US audience into a |
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| Meet The New Russia |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| that the authors received foreign grants to write them. Now, the Kremlin claims it wants to change that situation and a recommissioning of Russia's history textbooks is under way. A handbook for teachers, on the basis of which a future textbook for students could be written, is called The Modern History of Russia, 1945-2006. Only one of the |
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| Foreign Affairs: British bank Bradford & Bingley has released ... |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 1:45 pm |
| Tags: Foreign Affairs |
| British bank Bradford & Bingley has released a survey in which a whopping 22% of married women said "that if they could go back in time they would change their husband." We're sorry to say this, but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Apparently There Is Rioting In Dhaka: Bangladesh Operative: hey, so the government ... |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 10:06 am |
| Tags: Apparently There Rioting In Dhaka, Bangladesh, Foreign Affairs, Operatives, Rioting, Violence |
| Bangladesh Operative: hey, so the government just turned the internet and cell phones back on after like two days! Alex: hahahahahaha wow Op: nobody’s covering the internet being off, you could be the first to break the story…. Alex: haha ok why did they turn the internet off?? ppl wasting too much time on youtube? Op: because |
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