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Go ahead, make a mistake, you’re human

May 4, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , | 5 Comments ↓

You’ve probably noticed for yourself that whenever someone says “make no mistake,” there’s a high probability that whatever he or she says next is going to be dubious.  If it was certain or near-certain before the speaker pointed it out,…

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Another Day That “Everyone Would Remember”

May 4, 2011 | Posted in US History, War | Tagged with: | No Comments ↓

Transferred from exquisite Kodachrome 16 MM: VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

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Major Announcement from Prez

May 1, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , | 11 Comments ↓

Any moment now. Have heard no rumors. Doesn’t he realize that I’m on a deadline? UPDATE OBL is dead.

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Because peace in the Holy Land and peace on Earth are the same thing

March 25, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , , , | 61 Comments ↓

For two reasons, I’ve been hanging fire on replying to Jerome Slater’s essay “The Jewish State Controversy: Can Zionism Be Reconciled With Justice to the Palestinians?”  First, I’ve been expecting the essay or at least a substantial excerpt to appear…

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My further brave, brave stance on Libya

March 24, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , , , , | 3 Comments ↓

At Juan Cole’s joint, the good professor details what the Libya No-Fly Zone has accomplished in just a few days.  He concludes: Pundits who want this whole thing to be over with in 7 days are being frankly silly. Those…

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My Stand(s) on the Libyan Atrocity

March 21, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , | 5 Comments ↓

By the light of my tallow candle, as I push hard on the pedals of my bicycle-powered generator, I bravely lash out at the world oil complex and its malign interference in the internal affairs of Libya.  As for my…

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Should Rumsfeld apologize?

February 22, 2011 | Posted in War | Tagged with: , , , , | 63 Comments ↓

Tom Ricks reflects on the American reaction to 9/11 – “Rumsfeld, America, and apologies” – and how his own sense of the world has changed:  “I never expected to live in a country whose government officially embraced torture.”  He points…

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Inventing the World

January 25, 2011 | Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Featured, History, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, War | Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments ↓

Though information technology now pervades both the most advanced “military estate” via the so-called “Revolution in Military Affairs,” as well as every sphere of political and cultural life, it maintains within itself the same original principles of self-sabotage and self-superannuation.

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The Iraq Syndrome

September 1, 2010 | Posted in Featured, History, Miscellany, Politics, War | Tagged with: , | 13 Comments ↓

Many on the right think President Obama’s Oval Office address last night should have credited “the Surge,” and they would have preferred thanks to his predecessor for taking and implementing a decision that Senator Obama and others fiercely criticized.  The…

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Contention(s) of the Day – Max Boot slanders America

August 20, 2010 | Posted in International Relations, Religion, War | Tagged with: , , | 2 Comments ↓

[A]s many people have noted, the War on Terror is not a reflection of an Islam vs. the West clash; it is part of a clash within Islam pitting fanatical Islamists against the vast majority of the world’s 1.2 billion…

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