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[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Nonfiction Book Reviews: 10/12/2009 - 10/12/2009 - Publishers Weekly: and the editors introduce each chapter with an interpretive essay with a clear political bent: they roundly condemn Bush for cynically exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 and regard the invasion as a tactic to gain access to Iraq’s oil, a move that has effectively “destabilized international politics, brought chaos to the Persian Gulf, strengthened international terrorism, devastated Iraqi society, damaged the U.S. economy, threatened its democracy, and made the United States an international pariah.” As rigorously as the authors make their case, their reluctance to seriously engage with dissenting views might ensure that the collection will find an appreciative audience only among the converted.

[Stop NATO] Afghanistan: West's 21st Century War Risks Regional Conflagration ...: In addition to American and Egyptian personnel “the coalition of military forces participating in the exercises also includes France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom….The training exercise will take place in Cairo and Alexandria from Oct. 10-26, and will include airborne, aviation, and naval and Marine field training exercises, along with a multinational command post battle-tracking exercise.”

[TAPPED] TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: I think that it's a mistake to single out for criticism the terms "winning" and "losing." First, considering that a war without specific objectives, that is simply seen as "gray," is apt to continue indefinitely, regardless of the merits of the status quo, as Iraq did for so long. Precisely because warmaking costs lives, at some level obstructs the sovereignty of the occupied, and is often politically popular with many low-information voters, it's important to have discrete criteria for judging its effects.

[The Survivalist Forum] The Survivalist Forum » Blog Archive » Escalation of US NATO War ...: In addition to American and Egyptian personnel “the coalition of military forces participating in the exercises also includes France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom….The training exercise will take place in Cairo and Alexandria from Oct. 10-26, and will include airborne, aviation, and naval and Marine field training exercises, along with a multinational command post battle-tracking exercise.”

[Blog: Escorts Colombianas] Blog: Escorts Colombianas » Bay British Colombia Eagle: If McChrystal gains the additional 60,000 American troops he’s requested and NATO provides several thousand more, combined Western military forces in Afghanistan could number some 180,000. With control of former Soviet airbases in the nation in addition to air fields in Central Asia, Iraq, the South Caucasus, Turkey and the Black Sea nations of Bulgaria and Romania, Washington and its allies could be poised for military operations against Iran far more ambitious than any discussed or rumored before.

[Press About] Press About » Blog Archive » Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC ...: As for Secretary of the Air Force Donley’s comment to the extent if the AF needed more airlift, “They could always retrofit more [35-42 year old] C-5s”, Stokes observes that without complete control of the air in a battlespace -the intended role of F-22- very large, minimally maneuverable C5s (not to mention requiring significant air operations infrastructure) would be nothing more than fodder for the cannons and missiles of enemy fighter craft.

[News] Arabs for Israel: meet the Egyptian woman who campaigns against ...: Darwish is often compared to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch feminist, but whereas Ali is an atheist who stands up for Europe’s “Enlightenment values” against Islam, Darwish is a Christian who believes “that Judeo-Christian culture produces healthier, happier and more just societies, whereas Islamic culture produces tyrannical regimes and oppression”.

[Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Much Ado About Shopping - Reason Magazine: They saw Allawi and Chalbi, western educated, secular men, and thought they were representative of the Iraqi people. They went into the country and found that on the ground it .

[Alexandria] Russia is Not the USSR « Alexandria: The only reasons then to continue with missiles in Poland, aside from those who almost religious beliefs about missile defense, heaven knows you see them on the milblogs, is if you want to antagonize Russia. Any missile that will shoot down long range ICBMs will have a booster big enough to carry big bombs.

[Dandelion Salad] Afghanistan: West's 21st Century War Risks Regional Conflagration ...: In addition to American and Egyptian personnel “the coalition of military forces participating in the exercises also includes France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom”¦.The training exercise will take place in Cairo and Alexandria from Oct. 10-26, and will include airborne, aviation, and naval and Marine field training exercises, along with a multinational command post battle-tracking exercise.” [30]

[Small Wars Council] 25 September SWJ Roundup - Small Wars Council: Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[All In One Information] All In One Information » Iraq: The Other War « Alexandria: I realize that we are supposed to think that we won the Iraq war .I prefer to think of it as it is often described by Tom Ricks, a tactical success and a strategic failure.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Democrats Still Run ...: Last week at a campaign-style rally in College Park, the president said that “part of the reason I faced a trillion-dollar-plus deficit when I walked into the door of the White House is because too many initiatives over the last decade were not paid for, from the Iraq war to tax breaks for the wealthy.”

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive ...: This manipulative tactic was used a lot during the Bush administration to make America think that we were somehow welcomed as liberators during the overthrow of Sadaam Husseinn. It is not much different then FOX network which serves as a puppet to do the bidding of the GOP and right wing extremists who represent the worst of what America has to offer.

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