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[Sadly, No!] Super Wingnut: Rich Lowry (Part III): [T]here is one other similarity with Vietnam that should be avoided ”” the aching sense that not everything was done to win the war. By the end of Vietnam, we had essentially beaten the insurgency and could have helped the South Vietnamese hold off the conventional invasion of the North, if we hadn’t given up.

[State Your Position] There Was No ”˜Smart’ Way to Invade Iraq: Abandoning the orphan that is the Iraq War has clearly been a protracted, painful process for the liberal hawks, those intellectuals and pundits so celebrated back in 2003 for their courage in coming forward to smash liberal .

[Big Lizards] Four "Conservatives" In Search of an Ideology: Graham, during the entire year of 2006, paraded as a Homer-Simpson populist on virtually every important issue, from judges to terrorist interrogations to the conduct of the war;

 [CATHOLIC CHURCH RICHES is HUGE] CATHOLIC RICHES in WORLD is MEGA HUGE. CALIFORNIA PRIMARY.: In the mid 1600s, when Finns first came to America they taught the few other ethnic groups that had just come to the New World, and the natives, not Muslim beliefs, but how to build log cabins. Before the entry of "Finnish Log Cabin Technology" into North America many English and Natives froze: Before the entry of Finns, the English, Scottish, Dutch, Germans, and natives lived underground in sod covered pits: THE AMERICAN BACKWOODS FRONTIER, Terri Jordan and Matti Kaups, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989, pp.135-36, and other pages.

[Oliver Kamm] Review of What's Left? by Nick Cohen: Recall, however, the most vocal campaigns on the Left to do with Iraq: not so much an uninterest in that nation's suffering as an energetic attribution of it to that same porous sanctions regime. It is small wonder that by the end of the decade, as Cohen records: 'The hideous choice for Makiya, Iraq and all those who professed to believe in human rights was this: either they would have to wait for [Saddam's] death and the deaths of his sadistic sons Qusay and Uday, or they had to accept that the only way to remove the Baath was foreign invasion.'

 [The Hoolequin] killswitchrave @ 2006-07-24T10:39:00: With a few bland words -- "this Sunday I will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories, where I will meet with Prime Minister Olmert and his leadership and with President Abbas and his team"--U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week linked her office not just to one summer's crisis but also to the careers and reputations of those who preceded her in high office. Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Baker, Madeleine Albright and others found themselves dragged into the business of trying to bring peace to the Middle East.

 [The Digest] 10/30 “Stability First”; Inside Ministry of Truth: Storytellers of ...: It is in these dark rooms where marketers and public relations gurus and spin masters and damage control experts and media executives and political Machiavellis gather, where America’s fantasy-laden reality is engendered and molded, where the strategies and campaigns conditioning Americans how to think are given life, to be disseminated through the airwaves and in print, penetrating minds and lives, making us the mere servant class of the elite. What can we expect, after all, out of an institution which has since its inception been financed and supported by the Establishment?

 [KALKI GAUR] WORLD BALANCE OF POWER (27) KALKI GAUR: The Capitalism and democracy cemented the ties among First World nations. The Richelieu’s Raison D’etat and Balance of Power became the dominant ideology and diplomatic policy guidelines in the post-Iraq War world.

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