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Tweet“It may be that this point of difference won’t be a distinction much longer. An American colonel in Iraq, writing to The Washington Post’s Thomas E. Ricks, recently observed: “The phrase ‘inshallah,’ or ‘God willing,’ has permeated all ranks of the Army. When you talk to U.S. soldiers about the possible success of ‘the surge,’

TweetThe two of you who find your way here on a regular basis may have noticed my interest in Dr. Barnett and his work. Well this is his talk from 2005’s TED conference and more importantly his chance to put on his show here at 2112’s infamous Talking Head Day (it’s really more like Talking Head of

Tweet“Good to know that John McCain would read an intelligence report about al-Qaeda in Pakistan planning to murder more Americans and say LOL HAI LOOK IRAN KTHXBAI. Good to know that John McCain thinks Pervez Musharraf is a valuable ally. Good to know John McCain believes that the Pakistani security apparatus is best used when

Tweet“The Marine Corps now wants a third less of those Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, “despite pressure from lawmakers who are determined to spend billions of dollars” on the things, according to the AP. I can guess why their requirement mysteriously dropped. A Congressional Research Service report noted that the Marine Corps was planning

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TweetIt seems to me that your “dissent of the day reader” has fallen into the swamp and mistaken conventional media narrative for fact. As much as I find myself heartened by the uplifting and forward looking nature of Senator Obama’s campaign I’m a foreign policy/national security geek and with no other justification, I’ll be voting