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  • Least experienced

    What manner of fool could not notice that George W. Bush had, at best, comparable experience to Barack Obama? Zero legislative experience, followed by six years of the weakest Governorship in the Union? Obama has seven years state legislative experience, followed by four years Federal senatorial experience. Gah! I hate it when ostensibly ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Kimmitt on October 27, 2008

  • Neo Con Claptrap for Georgia and Zion

    It was excruciating reading Ms Applebaum's diatribe given that her Neo Con world vision was so transparently encased in mantras meant to excite the gullible reader. , Russia is still the Soviet Bear from the north set to devour free nations? Russia is still waging an ideological struggle? August 2008 is like August 1968 and the Soviet ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on August 18, 2008

  • Burma, Oil, & Neo Cons

    Connecting the global crusade for control of oil and the faction within Washington called the Neo Cons is fairly simple today. Thus, there is no surprise that Anne Applebaum makes a case for intervention in Burma. She is an operative of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The AEI is the leading Neo Con think tank in Washington and includes ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on May 13, 2008

  • Kenya Part of the US "Great Game" in Africa

    The conundrum of Africa's seemingly unending instability and conflicts resides in the origin, composition, and legacy of the African nation states and their colonial overlords. After defeating various peoples and defining their political and geographic circumstances based on all kinds of conflicting and questionable interests, the colonial ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 22, 2008

  • As viewed from Britain

    I have followed US Politics closely since I was in my teens. There are reasons for this, starting with My Lai, and much reinforced by my perception, at age seventeen, that Richard Nixon was crazy enough to start a nuclear war to create an insane distraction from Watergate. That scared me badly and it was years before I got over it Anyway, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by anarch on October 2, 2007