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23 hours ago ago from Same Old Change
It doesn't have to be this way Empire is folly On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the central question for the defense of the United States was how the military should be organized, equipped and funded in the years ahead, to win the wars we are in while being prepared for threats on or beyond the horizon. The phrase beyond the horizon ought to sound ominous. Was Gates ...
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19 hours ago ago from The Progressive Professor
Bob Herbert, an Op-Ed columnist for the NY Times, makes an excellent case for the obscenity of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He points out that less than one percent of our population is in the military, and that the same small percentage keeps on sacrificing by having numerous tours of duty in one or the other nation, with most Americans not giving it a thought, and not contributing anything to the war effort except making patriotic ...
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1 hour, 45 minutes ago ago from newsandwx.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the Afghanistan war by sending in more troops also has serious implications for the United States in Pakistan. Mr. Obama made it clear last week that he considers Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the same theater of war within which American forces will operate until the conflict ends. Administration officials who visited Pakistan recently have told that ...
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15 hours ago ago from PadminiArhant.com
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23 hours ago ago from Understanding Government
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SWEENEY’S SIDE: Let them do their job, let them win
14 hours ago ago from Media General - SCNow.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This SWEENEY'S SIDE: Let them do their job, let them win By John Sweeney | Editor: The Weekly Observer Published: December 9, 2009 Although it's been said many times, many ways, people just don't seem to understand it. No, I'm not talking about Merry ...
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19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially. There are a lot of potential reasons for this. While coverage of the wars has ebbed and flowed, it has never disappeared, so why would you pay $9 to see well-paid actors in fictionalized stories about the war when the real thing stares at you from every news show and magazine? A lot of Americans ...
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