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Professor Obama as Dutiful Commander-in-Chief
13 hours ago ago from Texas Insider
By Michael Barone Every time I visit the White House, I am struck by its military environment. Military guards are on duty, the staff has lunch in the White House mess and there's a helicopter pad for Marine One out on the lawn. You see nothing like this in any governor's office I have visited or in the offices of members of Congress, and certainly not in the headquarters of a political campaign or a community organizer. This ...
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17 hours ago ago from INDenverTimes
Every time I visit the White House, I am struck by its military environment. Military guards are on duty, the staff has lunch in the White House mess and there's a helicopter pad for Marine One out on the lawn. You see nothing like this in any governor's office I have visited or in the offices of members of Congress, and certainly not in the headquarters of a political campaign or a community organizer . This military atmosphere may ...
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12 hours ago ago from The Duck of Minerva
As you might expect, I've had a number of conversations with friends and colleagues about the prospects for the so-called "Afghan surge." Boosters like to point to the alleged success of the Iraq surge, but many of them ignore some salient points. For example, the U.S. also changed its military tactics in Iraq even as it implemented the surge. The military embraced counterinsurgency tactics , something it had been reluctant to do since ...
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17 hours ago ago from No Globalization
By Sara Flounders URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16354 Global Research , December 2, 2009 Workers World 2009-11-15 Just how powerful is the U.S. military today? Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the resistance in Afghanistan , in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or Vietnam ? Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most ...
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2 hours ago ago from Snowblog
Good morning once again from the cosy confines of the QEII conference centre in London where the Iraq inquiry gets under way shortly. Yesterday's evidence was very much of a military bent taking us through pre-combat planning to the fall of Baghdad. With the soldiers' war at least as seen from Washington and London we now move onto how the peace was lost; the ensuing weeks and months in which law and order disintegrated first into ...
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Iraq sets parliament elections for March 6
23 hours ago ago from FanHouse
BAGHDAD, Iraq -The presidential council on Tuesday postponed Iraq's parliamentary elections by seven weeks and set March 6 as the date for the vote, in a delay that has raised concerns about an increase in violence in the country. The decision on the election date came as a series of coordinated attacks killed at least 102 people and wounded 197 in Baghdad. It was the worst day of violence in the Iraqi capital in more than two months. Three ...
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