Tag: international affairs
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December 05, 2009 06:21 PM EST --
Last July, the Wall Street Journal ran a column suggesting that Obama was going to fulfill Bush’s third term .
Since then, the Obama administration has mirrored many of the previous administrations . . .
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July 02, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Today, on either CNN or MSNBC I encountered a news piece that once again started me wondering how much our perceptions are affected by where we live.
An Israeli Muslim construction worker . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
As the President moves to veto only his second piece
of legislation in six years because it doesn't give him
(and presumably the generals in Baghdad) a free hand
in the Iraq situation, it would . . .
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April 13, 2009 04:56 AM EDT --
Congratulations and my thanks to the United States Navy, the merchant marines of the Maersk Alabama and everyone who had a hand in thwarting the attack on the Maersk Alabama and the attempt . . .
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November 20, 2007 02:30 AM EST --
Amid the talk of and threats of oil going up to over 200 dollars a barrel a question and idea occurred to me, but I do not have the expertise to know if it is really a viable idea, Since it is so simple . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
The book is called What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson of
Harvard (2006). The excerpt is from Chapter 8 of that book,
entitled "What is . . .
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June 25, 2008 08:55 AM EDT --
This is another one of those funny little things you get to thinking sometimes.
I was thinking the other day that if the President of the United States is the "Leader of the Free World" . . .
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September 19, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
No topics have risen more quickly in recent years than procuring green energy alternatives and combating climate change. How can China and the United States work together to stop global climate change? . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
At present, the US on the ground in Iraq, the
State and Defense Departments are all denying
any Turkish action is occurring in Iraq, as is
the Iraqi government. However, CNN is
reporting that such is occurring, . . .
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June 12, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
One of my list members asked me today what
I thought about the Alexander Litvinenko case.
After looking up both the articles still another
list member pointed out to me earlier today . . .
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September 19, 2008 07:39 PM EDT --
The United States must lead the way to reducing nuclear weapons worldwide. The elimination of nuclear weapons is entering the political mainstream. Both presidential candidates have publicly supported . . .
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December 04, 2009 10:34 AM EST --
From The Daily Show
HERE
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June 19, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
This is a somewhat murky area for me, as I do
not completely understand why Palestinians are
so bitterly divided, or exactly what the appeal is
for Hamas, given the international community's . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:14 PM EDT --
The AP, in the person of Charles Hanley, reported
yesterday that Turkish troops are massing on the
Iraqi border across from the Iraqi Kurdish area,
and that insurgents/"saboteurs" have blown . . .
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June 07, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
I'm a child of the nuclear age, born two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki; nuclear weapons have always been around in my lifetime. My generation is the first to ever been able to say this about the . . .
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September 29, 2009 05:35 PM EDT --
"The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight, and we won't defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy.
But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is . . .
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October 04, 2009 09:05 PM EDT --
Barack Obama, March 27, 2009
"Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that . . .
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October 12, 2009 12:09 PM EDT --
This may be good news if you are an exporter, but for the rest of us, probably not.
From Bloomberg
"Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and . . .
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April 29, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
Yesterday, President Bush effusively praised his visitor, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, as they met in the oval office.
This despite the fact that the annual State Department human rights report . . .
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