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Thursday, February 7, 2013

From Defeat to Victory

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I posted this quote from Rick Atkinson ( An Army at Dawn – The War in North Africa 1942-1943, p 377) on November 18, 2010: Having particip...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Psy the Useful Idiot

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Useful Idiot : "In political jargon, useful idiot is a pejorative term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals th...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

An irresponsible exit from Iraq

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PREFACE: Scroll past the sources or click on #exitexposition to skip ahead to my commentary on the issue. In today's New York Times (...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Links after the Chris Stevens assassination

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Following my post reacting to the assassination of Ambassador Stevens, here is a round-up of related perspectives and insight: Ann Coulte...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Our Middle East choices: autocrats, Islamists, liberals

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See the benchmark, Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa , 19MAY11. The contest for dominance in the Middle East is...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Benghazi attack and the clash of civilizations

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The assassination of Ambassador Stevens [ graphic picture ] with 3 other Americans yesterday at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya was lik...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

A question for Romney and Obama about liberalism in American foreign policy

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President Obama, Governor Romney, is liberalism dead as the defining and galvanizing principle of American (and American-led Western) foreig...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

A problem of definition in the Iraq controversy: Was the issue Saddam's regime or Iraq's demonstrable WMD?

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PREFACE: This post is the companion piece to Regime Change in Iraq From Clinton to Bush . It explains the public controversy with the histor...