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2 September SWJ Roundup

smallwarsjournal.com     Sep 2, 2008   178 related          

US ARMY Is the US Army Ready for Conventional War? - If the Army had focused the majority of its time and resources prior to the Iraq war on counterinsurgency and nation-building, the march to Baghdad would have been much...                    

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How to Manage Savagery

freerepublic.com     Sep 2, 2008          

“Islam has bloody borders.” So wrote Samuel Huntington in “The Clash of Civilizations?,” his 1993 Foreign Affairs article later expanded (minus the question mark) into a best-selling book. Huntington argued that, eclipsing...                    

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newyorker.com: Petraeus tours a market in Yusufiya, a town near Baghdad. “The idea is to stay away from the whole optimism-pessimism thing,” he says. Photograph by Franco Pagetti. newyorker.com

Steve Coll: David Petraeus, the pressures of politics, and the road out of Iraq.

newyorker.com     Aug 31, 2008   1 related          

Early in 2007, when David Petraeus became Commanding General of United States and international forces in Iraq, he had in mind a strategy to manage the political pressures he would face because of the unpopularity of the...                    

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UN, Demopathic Instrument of Retrogression: Pascal Bruckner on Durban II (Boycott!)

theaugeanstables.com     Aug 26, 2008          

Pascal Bruckner is one of my favorite French intellectuals, someone who cuts through the maze of post-modern morality like a lazer through butter. So I was pleased to find that he's taken on Durban II. Boycott Durban II...                    

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Endless Liberal (Democrat) Whining....

madjaymon.blogspot.com     Aug 22, 2008   1 related          

It got old about 2 years ago, after listening to these clowns droning on and whining endlessly about our nation's declining world perception due to........(drum roll please)......George W. Bush and his ___________ (fill...                    

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The dark (k)night of a postmodern world, Tina Beattie

opendemocracy.net     Aug 21, 2008   6 related          

Forget the gadgetry and stunts in Christopher Nolan's brooding Batman film, The Dark Knight. Clever though they are, they are only the visual props for a multi-layered philosophical reflection on our post-9/11 world, scripted...                    

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It Doesn’t Take a Weatherman…

sunlightfoundation.com     Aug 18, 2008   3 related          

There are two prime negative stereotypes of elected officials. One is of the official who sticks their finger to the wind and goes whichever way it blows. The other is the official who takes a position based on who can fill...                    

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The World of Tomorrow

wsj.com     Aug 14, 2008   2 related          

The Way We'll Be By John Zogby (Random House, 235 pages, $26) John Zogby is the maverick in the political polling fraternity, the guy who admits that he sometimes tweaks the rules and whose numbers are sometimes greeted with...                    

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For Azerbaijan, economy comes first

turkishdailynews.com.tr     Aug 12, 2008          

only available in modern browsers."); } } For Azerbaijan, economy comes first For Azerbaijan, economy comes first (Elnur ASLANOV ) Elnur ASLANOV When, in April 1974, a group of officers stood for democratic changes in Portugal,...                    

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The exhausted dream

ft.com     Aug 2, 2008          

its ideals. In language only she could deploy, Ehrenreich explains why the debate about whether the US is heading into recession is irrelevant to the large swathes of America that for years have endured flat or declining...                    

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