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3 hours ago ago from Left, Right, and Centered
VDH from NRO: The president said some good things, but unfortunately, his long academic lecture on the nature of war itself had all the characteristics of we have come to accept from a Barack Obama sermon: 1) Verbosity (4,000 words plus!) and extraneousness (he finally even referenced the world’s farmers); 2) I/me exhaustion (34 times) and the messianic cult of personality; 3) the 50/50, split-the-difference trope; 4) the straw man: on ...
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23 hours ago ago from That’s My Congress » A politically independent journal of the campaigns and legislation of the United States Congress.
There was a casual sort of brushing off of the past from Congressman Walter Jones earlier this week. Discussing Afghanistan policy on the floor of the House of Representatives, Jones declared, I do agree with Mr. Obama, the war should have always been Afghanistan and we should not have gone into Iraq, but that is history now. It's rather convenient for Walter Jones to dismiss the decision to rush into a war in Iraq as mere history. Jones ...
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1 hour, 2 minutes ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan
By William Blum, Consortiumnews.com , Dec 10, 2009 Editor’s Note: It is an overpowering consensus in Washington that the relative decline in Iraqi violence must be attributed to President George W. Bush’s “courageous” decision in 2007 to “surge” U.S. troop levels, a lesson that now must be repeated in Afghanistan. This conventional wisdom has been pushed especially hard by the influential neoconservatives and the Republicans, but ...
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7 hours ago ago from RandyGoldring.com
One of the legends told of King Solomon regards his decision concerning two mothers who both claimed a newborn baby was theirs. (A newly born baby had died the previous night and both mothers claimed the surviving baby was theirs) The King decided that since he couldn’t tell who was the actual mother, that the baby should be cut in two with each mother receiving half. The real mother couldn’t bear to see her child killed and cried and ...
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10 hours ago ago from Way off the grid
I haven't written for a couple of days; it's not that I don't have anything to say, or even time to say it in. It's that what I would like to say can't (or shouldn't, perhaps) be said. Maybe a better way to look at it is that I don't know how to say it The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head ...
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Daniel Denvir: Why the Afghan War was a Mistake -- And Why that Matters
6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
By sending 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama has made a tragic mistake that could define, and undermine, his entire presidency. But this mistake, which promises to prolong an impossible mission and take countless more Afghan and American lives, is only the most recent error in a war of choice that has from the beginning been not only impractical but also unjust. If we are going to end the Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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