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Political Petraeus Pushes for Neo Con 'Win'
General Petraeus is a political animal. All members of the general corps are, but Petraeus in particular subscribes to the Neo Con American global hegemonic design. And his Central Command posting and Afghanistan 'surge' strategy is a political maneuver on behalf of Neo Con ideological preservation. [If you doubt that Neo Conism represents a ...
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Usama2
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September 21, 2008
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
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Fighting Words
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MichaelBernard2
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September 19, 2008
Pakistan, India, and our strategic interests.
As a retired Army intelligence analyst, I find Mr. Hitchins' post quite sobering. If I learned one thing during my Army career it was ''do not look for what we want to be there, but look for what is there.'' Our tilt towards Pakistan was a relic of the Cold War. If we had remembered our early history, we would understand why India was trying to ...
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Fighting Words
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Tom Cannon
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September 16, 2008
Pakistan, India, and our strategic interests.
As a retired Army intelligence analyst, I find Mr. Hitchins' post quite sobering. If I learned one thing during my Army career was ''do not look for what we want to be there, but look for what is there.'' Our tilt towards Pakistan was a relic of the Cold War. If we had remembered our early history, we would understand why India was trying to ...
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Fighting Words
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Tom Cannon
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September 16, 2008
the future of US foreign policy
More diaster? Or opportunity? Yes the US is in a weak position right now. (economic shambles and losing war/s). What exactly is our new president going to do about it?.
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david wayne osedach
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August 22, 2008