Tag: military
member name: John M.
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October 20, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
It looks like a civil war is overtaking Iraq. It is not something we sought or should seek because of the human suffering that will result. Nevertheless it may very well occur despite all preventive efforts. . . . more
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November 26, 2006 04:36 PM EST --
I disagree with all the conservative pundits who say that the Democrats have no mandate from the voting public. But then again, I also disagree with old line liberals who assert that now is the time to . . . more
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November 14, 2006 08:58 AM EST --
I recently encountered a puzzling controversy in response to an article about the war involving military vs civilian control.The question was posed: How can someone who has never served, know better about . . . more
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October 27, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
We all respect and and hold in the highest admiration John McCain and Bob Kerrey former Senator from Nebraska and now President at the New School. These two Vietnam war heroes represent the best that our . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
As we survey the domestic and international terrain over the next two years it should be apparent to all that US ascendancy and triumphalism will not characterize the period. This will be a time for modesty . . . more
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November 10, 2006 03:22 PM EST --
I once had a job which required that my productivity had to continually increase while a second major responsibility was to train new people who once they were prepared would directly compete with me and . . . 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 19, 2006 05:31 PM EST --
One of the few things upon which everyone agrees is that all the options open in Iraq are downright bad choices. So it all boils down to choosing the least horrific course of action. Yesterday my article . . . more
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July 18, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Iraq gets real hot in August so hot that the Iraqi Parliament will temporarily put aside their charge of unifying their own country and take a full months vacation. Critics have attacked this decision . . . more
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January 02, 2007 09:11 AM EST --
The President is bending belatedly but he is not changing. For the first year of Bush's adventure in Iraq he, through and because of Rumsfeld's unshakable conviction that just enough was good enough, . . . more
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January 18, 2007 08:26 AM EST --
Today's New Haven Register provides line and verse about the upcoming demolition of the New Haven Coliseum. The accompanying diagrams reveal each supporting column that will be blasted and the sequential . . . more
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April 15, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
There aren't too many issues upon which liberals and conservatives can agree. As an offshoot of that situation, much of the dialogue that does take place nationally is divisive and more often than . . . more
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May 07, 2007 10:17 AM EDT --
On the face of it, almost everyone would agree that a President should not lie to his citizens. "The truth shall make us free". Freedom of information is considered essential to public understanding. . . . more
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November 28, 2006 08:57 AM EST --
NBC News has it wrong. This is by no means a Civil War. First of all the Jihadists are not even from Iraq. They are only there temporarily by virtue of their student and work visas. Their real beefs are . . . 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 28, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
This upcoming presidential election shows promise of upending, to the delight of most Americans, the present odds on favorites from both parties. The campaigns have started so terribly early that they . . . more
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February 14, 2007 05:19 PM EST --
"Be the best that you can be." Remember that advertising promotion from not too many years ago that was intended to attract young people into the Army. Well, in the future, they won't be . . . more
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January 26, 2007 09:22 PM EST --
Iran in Iraq
Today, to my surprise, I heard from a retired military strategist that Iran has hundreds of thousands of it's people in Iraq. Our military has been very recently instructed to capture . . . more
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July 17, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
There is no disagreement in the military establishment, or elsewhere, that General David Petraeus is one of the best military commanders we have and he is ideally suited for his current leadership role, . . . more
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