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[Pak Alert Press] The Long War: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and more ahead « Pak ...: that encompasses much of the greater Middle East and parts of Africa and Central and South Asia.” The Pentagon’s official Quadrennial Defense Review (2005) commits the United States to a greater emphasis on fighting terrorism and insurgencies in this “arc of instability.”

[Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking] Tikkun Magazine - Tom Hayden on The Long War: Iraq, Afghanistan ...: destroyed in "the center of an 'arc of instability' through South and Central Asia and the greater Middle East." The implications of this doctrine are staggering. The very notion of a fifty-year war assumes the consent of the American .

[NiemanWatchdog.org] Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > Locked into an expanding war in ...: That assassination, by the way, only increased instability in South Vietnam, leading to a succession of weak military regimes and paving the way for a further unraveling there. This American expansion of the war would likely have .

[Washington Examiner Site Feed] Army official: U.S. prepared to stay in Iraq for 10 years ...: President Barack Obama plans to bring U.S. combat forces home from Iraq in 2010, and the United States and Iraq have agreed that all American forces would leave by 2012. Although several senior U.S. officials have suggested Iraq could request an extension, the legal agreement the two countries signed last year would have to be amended for any significant U.S. presence to remain.

[Wonders of Pakistan] The Pressure of an Expanding War « Wonders of Pakistan: After all, frustration in Washington is already building, for however much the Pakistani military may be taking on the Taliban in Swat or Buner, don’t expect its military or civilian leaders to be terribly interested in what happens near the Afghan border.

[SWJ Blog] 27 May SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): 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.

[The Asia Pacific Journal: Recent Articles] JapanFocus: How could Russia, China, and Iran not interpret the war in Kosovo, then the invasion of Afghanistan (where Washington had previously tried to pair with the Taliban and encourage the building of another of those avoid-Iran, avoid-Russia pipelines), followed by the invasion of Iraq (that country of vast oil reserves), and finally the recent clash in Georgia (that crucial energy transportation junction) as straightforward wars for Pipelineistan? Though seldom imagined this way in our mainstream media, the Russian and Chinese leaderships saw a stark "continuity" of policy stretching from Bill Clinton's humanitarian imperialism to Bush's Global War on Terror.

[Sandy Garrett Blog - American History] Troop Surge In Iraq Will Deepen Quagmire | Sandy Garrett Blog ...: Our current troops should be used only to train Iraqi forces, both police and military, and not act as combatants in a country whose government we already defeated. If the President finds it mandatory to deploy additional troops, again these additional forces should only be used to train Iraqi forces, not to intervene.

[Samson Blinded] American aid to Pakistan and North Korea - bribes to nuclear regimes: Short of such bold measures, America has no alternative to buying the communists off. Unlike the Iranian nukes which target Israel, the Korean ones can also reach America as the North won’t hesitate selling them to terrorists, especially that the communists have strong connections to Al Qaeda through A.Q.Khan, the progenitor of Pakistani and Korean nukes.

[Latest entries from tabacco.blog-city.com] SANCTIONS DEADLY CIRCLE BACKFIRE! A) US Made N. Korea Most ...: Precedent for such a scheme exists: the West sustained a strategic embargo of high-technology exports against the Soviet Union with reasonable success for more than 40 years during the Cold War, and more limited arms embargoes have often been employed against other states. Such an arrangement would not entirely prevent Iraq from regaining military power and increasing its ability to threaten others, but it would constrain this rearmament, and would do so at a financial and human cost that could be easily borne, for decades if necessary.

[SWJ Blog] 26 May SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): The president and the nation’s top military officer today denounced North Korea's claim that it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test, much larger than previous such tests, to “bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense." "North Korea's nuclear ballistic missile programs pose a great threat to the peace and security of the world and I strongly condemn their reckless action," Obama told reporters this morning in the White House Rose Garden. North Korea's actions they are a blatant violation of international law, and they contradict North Korea's own prior commitments, he said.

[Locust blog] Nine Rioters Arrested After 'Luton Protest Turned Violent ...: Unfortunately, The Militia Solution omitted consideration of certain important questions, and perhaps for this reason did not produce any detectable reaction of the type I had hoped for. Accordingly, I have decided to revisit the issue in hopes of providing better guidance for what I believe must be done if this nation is to survive in any form resembling what the Founders intended, particularly because at the time of this writing we appear to be on the brink of war, and the claim of 'necessity' produced by wartime conditions is just the excuse which the government needs -- and likely will use -- to fasten the final fetters of totalitarianism onto its citizens, and especially onto dissenters such as myself.

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