Tag: middle east
member name: John M.
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January 28, 2007 03:55 PM EST --
We are the not so proud parents of an immature Iraqi government that behaves irresponsibly. We fear they cannot survive if we don't protect them. We watch their every halting ineffective move with . . . more
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April 14, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
In one of the editorials printed in today's New York Times the matter of finding a new czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is discussed: "We have long suspected that there is no one . . . more
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January 10, 2007 08:36 AM EST --
In my last article Middle Eastern Trump Card I discussed a revised view of where we are in the Middle East and how it could be used to our advantage. Todays Wall Street Journal had a column that comes . . . more
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July 12, 2007 12:21 PM EDT --
One of the more important characteristics that set us apart from other species is our capacity to formulate, articulate, grasp and, most significantly, act and live according to "Ideas we hold and . . . more
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October 25, 2006 10:25 AM EDT --
If we originally went into Iraq because of a strongly held carryover belief from the first Gulf war that we didn't truly finish the job then the Neo Cons and Tom Freedman of the NY Times provided the . . . more
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November 24, 2006 06:12 PM EST --
The Islamic Middle East today is somewhat like ancient Greece in one critical regard. Athenian culture served as the symbolic fountainhead of logical reasoning for the intellectual development of western . . . more
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December 04, 2006 05:35 PM EST --
At one level, our unbelievably complicated predicament in Iraq can be stated simply as a choice between two powerful, but conflicting, moral truths: If you break it, you own it (Colin Powell) and "Absent . . . more
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December 18, 2006 11:00 AM EST --
As we contemplate the possibility of sending additional troops to Iraq, it seems to me that we should make sure not to repeat the serious errors made when we entered that country in the first place. The . . . more
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January 06, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
Who said George Bush will never change? He is about to beef up our military presence in Baghdad by some 20,000 soldiers. Military commanders in Iraq are being taken out of the game and being replaced by . . . more
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December 06, 2006 11:12 AM EST --
When delving into very complex matters that are difficult to grasp I find it helpful to look for analogous models that, though over simplified, sometimes provide a mental tool that may be helpful in providing . . . more
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December 07, 2006 04:33 PM EST --
Donald Rumsfeld : Dang it, that the same thing I said, so how come I got fired?
Dick Cheney : *X#*$ (bleep)
George Bush : Thanks Dad. How long did you say I'd be grounded?
Laura Bush : . . . more
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December 09, 2006 09:57 AM EST --
Fighting Anti Americanism: a New ParadigmFighting Anti Americanism: a New Paradigm
The most convincing message emitted by the Iraq Study Group is that the situation in Iraq is already grave and spiraling . . . more
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December 20, 2006 10:54 AM EST --
We have to be very careful about trying to apply American analogies to the Iraqi mindset. They do not think or behave in ways that we recognize. In todays New York Times, Tom Friedman lists some fifteen . . . more
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February 01, 2007 03:56 PM EST --
If only I knew then what I know now I would have opposed the "War Powers Act". Sound familiar? This phrase has become the stock fig leaf for politicians who voted in favor of the war but have . . . more
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March 03, 2007 10:17 PM EST --
Well, what do you know, reason found a way to surface by circumventing the unreasonable. For long months, nay years now, we have been waiting for Bush-Cheney to come to their senses. Surely, our thinking . . . more
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April 13, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer makes the case that there is a meaningful change for the better in Anbar province where the Sunni population has turned against Al Qaeda and in Baghdad . . . more
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July 22, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
After five years of war the strongest, and seemingly, irrefutable argument offered up by the administration to oppose what is virtually a nationwide demand that we withdraw from Iraq, is that it would . . . more
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November 25, 2006 09:59 AM EST --
In today's New York Times, Maureen Dowd laments the lack of central governance in Iraq. "The questions are no longer whether there’s a civil war or whether we can achieve a military victory. . . . more
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December 21, 2006 10:20 AM EST --
I wish the world was a simple place where matters were straight forward and obvious. Wouldn't it be satisfying if everything was exactly the way it appeared on the surface? But no, more often then . . . more
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February 20, 2007 09:35 AM EST --
As some of you know I am an Independent in matters political. My leanings are fiscal conservatism and a preference for small government. The war in Iraq disturbs me and millions of others deeply. It is . . . more
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