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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Remembering History by Seeing the Future

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So an Islamist murders some Turkish judges. Just another story of the tragic decline of a once secular Turkey into some Islamic republic, yo...

Block of Instruction (10 minutes)

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The latest developments about our Guantanamo Bay detention facilities pretty much define our Long War pretty nicely. First : Prisoners with ...

Posing for the Cameras

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I read that several weeks ago, in Pakistan, that 1,500 Taliban/al Qaeda types hit a small Pakistani army base in a desperate effort to grab ...
Friday, May 19, 2006

There Goes the Neighborhood II

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Via Stand-To! Iran's neighbors don't seem quite so tranquil about Iranian nukes as a number of docile infidels in the West: Washingt...

Who's Unhappy in Iraq?

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The New York Times would have you believe that ordinary innocent Iraqis are fleeing Iraq and so showing that the war has been a disaster fo...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Lost Luggage

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Airlines lose luggage all the time. But 200,000 AK-47s ? As the AI investigation (Note: see page 16 of the PDF ) found, there is no record o...

Hugo? Sort of Rings a Bell ... I'm Sorry, Who?

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Strategypage notes that some analysts think the best thing to do about nutjobs like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales is to ignore them and let th...

Iraqi Perspectives Update

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Ok, another of my long awaited comments on the outstanding Joint Forces Command Iraqi Perspectives report. I'm keeping all my comments t...

The First Wired War

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The impact of new means of communication and news dissemination on our ability to maintain public support for war is one we are still debati...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

There Goes the Neighborhood

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Iran's neighbors sure don't want to go nuclear in self defense . I can't believe they'll protest too much if we relieve them...

Killing Jihadis is Fun and Easy

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I've remarked that our video game culture gives us an advantage in modern war just as our mechanical aptitude gave us an edge in World W...

Our Good Friends, the French

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Without minimal comment, I offer you our allies the French : As Philadelphians cope with another police slaying, news comes that a suburb of...

Adding Up

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With 27 million people there, critics of our force deployments in Iraq continue to assert we have too few troops to pacify the population. W...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Jittery

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The Iranian mullahs seem a bit, ah, sensitive : The government has announced that it is going to increase security forces in southwestern Kh...

The Euro Plan to Stop Enrichment

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Because it worked so well with North Korea: Key European nations are considering offering Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of ince...

"W" Lied! People Died!

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This border issue is really just a distraction away from the real crimes that have taken place on the border. The latest on the plan to send...

Guard on the Border

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So sending the National Guard to the border will involve sending reservists there on their annual training rather than a regular mobilizatio...
Monday, May 15, 2006

To the Shores of Nuance

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We have pulled Libya out of the enemy column in our Long War without firing a shot (at them). This is a good thing. In September 2001, when ...

Traffic Analysis

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Traffic analysis is not eavesdropping. I was stunned at the hyper-ventilating over the latest disclosure that our NSA analyzes patterns of c...
Sunday, May 14, 2006

Suck it Up and Saddle Up

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Wretchard senses that the bloggers are faltering in their convictions : My own hunch is that in the last two or three months there's bee...