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• Bahran Trip Out

  
  Addison Road — Authority: 118
  One of my classes ended early, and the next one hadn’t started yet, so I took a few minutes to mess around with Logic. Here is the result. Go forth and be creative! [See post to listen to audio]
  17 hours ago

• Workplace Violence -- How to recognize its warning signals

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Last weeks shooting at Fort Hood was a criminal act of senseless violence against innocent victims whod done nothing to harm their assailant. As the FBI, army officials, police investigators and forensic psychologists continue to piece together the events and motives behind this brutal act, many of us scratch our ...
  1 day ago

• Obama – Afghanistan Troop Build-Up Reported by CBS – Denied by White House – A Disconnect and Disservice to the Public.

  
  Massachusetts Conservative Feminist | Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity — Authority: 127
  "Obamas War in Afganistan - Image: whitewraithe wordpress A CBS News report issued yesterday indicated “informed sources” suggested that the President would increase troop deployment to Afghanistan by up to 40,000 members. There are 68,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Afghanistan; General Stanley ...
  2 days ago

• George Washington, Justice and the Taliban

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 441
  “During one of his liaison trips to Hanoi, Colonel Harry (Summers) told Tu, “You know, you never beat us on the battlefield,” Colonel Tu responded, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.” George Washington led one of the most famous insurgent campaigns of all time. On paper, it was a total mismatch. ...
  3 days ago

• America Eats its Young: Playing Hurt at Fort Hood

  
  Sex at Dawn — Authority: 98
  Listening to Rachel Maddows coverage of the Fort Hood killings last night, I heard her declare that, "Anyone who commits a massacre is criminally insane, or just a criminal." This is the kind of statement that seems obvious to the person saying it and to most of those hearing it, but imagine how it would sound to an ...
  5 days ago

• America Eats its Young: First and Ten at Fort Hood

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Listening to Rachel Maddows coverage of the Fort Hood killings last night, I heard her declare that, "Anyone who commits a massacre is criminally insane, or just a criminal." This is the kind of statement that seems obvious to the person saying it and to most of those hearing it, but imagine how it would sound to an ...
  5 days ago

• Friday, November 6, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 424
  “Police raid shooting suspect’s Killeen apartment,” by Victor O’Brien for the Killeen Daily Herald, November 6… http://www.kdhnews.com Bell County SWAT teams barricaded and evacuated a downtown Killeen apartment complex where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived before authorities say he killed 13 people and ...
  6 days ago

• What’s this about? Aid to Ethiopia? More Troops to Afghanistan? U.S. and Pakistan?

  
  Global Development: Views from the Center — Authority: 462
  Before investigating the source of the below quote, read it and guess to what it refers – it might surprise you how broadly applicable it is.It’s a classic American dilemma: How does a superpower fix problems in a faraway country without dictating policies in a way that ultimately enfeebles the very people we are ...
  6 days ago

• "Back from one war to join another fight"

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 429
  Welcome back home to Labour Ipswich Councillor Alasdair Ross who has returned from a tour of duty with 2 Rifles in Afganistan. This Youtube tribute was posted on his blog in September and titled " A tribute to the 2 Rifles "The Chosen Men" High on a hill ". He reports his commanders view that it has been " ...
  1 week ago

• AFGANISTAN AND WHY CANADA IS THERE AND RICK HILLIER A NAIVE AND WHINING GENERAL

  
  CHUCKMAN'S OTHER CHOICE OF WORDS — Authority: 121
  POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN TORONTOS GLOBE AND MAIL I have heard Rick Hillier speak at some length recently on CBC Radio. Naturally, he is out promoting his book. I thought he largely came off as a whiner, rather naïve about the realities of war and politics. Hillier went into Afghanistan ...
  1 week ago

• The war in Afganistan is causing monetary turmoil

  
  Atomsantics.com — Authority: 161
  So far the financial system has basically leveled off and has not been dropping at such a mind boggling rate like it was this past year. With the drop in the stock market and the problems in the Middle East we are hurting very badly here in the USA. This is forcing people [...]
  1 week ago

• News Talk Online November 2, 2009: Abdullah Exit, Karzai Declaration, Provide An Opportunity Obama May Miss

  
  The Gary Baumgarten Report — Authority: 124
  By GARY BAUMGARTENPaltalk News NetworkAdministration officials are now saying that the announcement by contender Abdullah Abdullah to sit out Afghanistans runoff presidential election wont affect President Obamas policy decisions. But should the White House really so quickly dismiss the significance of Abullahs ...
  1 week ago

• Karzai Declared President of Afghanistan: Will This End Obama’s Indecision?

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  BBC reports that Hamid Karzai has now been declared the elected president of Afghanistan.  This happened after the runoff vote was canceled.  They write : The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announcement comes a day after Mr Karzai’s sole challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, pulled out of the race. Dr ...
  1 week ago

• Fallen Soldier’s Family has a Message for President Obama in Dover Ceremonies

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  Fallen Soldiers Family has a Message for President Obama in Dover [...]
  1 week ago

• UN: Drone attacks may violate international law

  
  statism watch — Authority: 489
  Non-representative ‘International law’ and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their present form are completely bogus, given Article 29, subsection (3) which states ‘These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations’, which amounts to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nimrod review to reveal failures

  
  Fitaloon at MicroShaft — Authority: 127
  The long awaited Independent review into the fatal Nimrod crash in Afghanistan will be presented to day and is unlikely to be happy reading for a number of parties. I have blogged on this on a number of occasionsIt’s interesting to hear also (via Radio Scotland) that of the RAF’s current 11 Nimrods, none are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taliban Take UN Hostages In Afghanistan

  
  Political Vindication — Authority: 112
  On October 10th Pakistani commandos had to raid their own army’s  headquarters to dislodge 30 people held by Taliban hostage takers.  The death toll ended up at 19 dead: six soldiers, two commandos, eight militant attackers and three captives.  Naturally a government can make brutal decisions like that, but what ...
  2 weeks ago

• A quotation from Vaclav Havel on dangers of seeking to create democracy, with haste

  
  dormgrandpop — Authority: 112
  I realize with fright that my impatience for the re-establishment of democracy had something almost communist in it; or more generally, something rationalist. I had wanted to make history move ahead in the same way that a child pulls on a plant to make it grow more quickly. I believe we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marines Leading The Way

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 487
  Marines continue to lead the way in Helmand Province. OpFor has the details.
  2 weeks ago

• Why We Must Win In Afghanistan

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 487
  Because men like Josh Brennan made the ultimate sacrifice and to not honor their memory with victory would be unacceptable. Featured Video: "Remembering SGT Joshua Brennan KIA 26 October 2007 Korengal Valley, Afghanistan
  2 weeks ago

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