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Edward Tick, "Where’s the Real Healing for our Iraq Veterans," from HopeDance Magazine
I'm curious about this author (Edward Tick, who wrote War and the Soul), which is why I'm bookmarking this relatively recent piece.
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The Hurt Locker: A Near-Perfect War Film - TIME
This looks like an interesting flick.
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Gov. Palin speaks to the Wasilla Assembly of God church, June 2008 (Huffington Post)
Gov. Palin addresses a Pentecostal church with which she was associated until 2002. The speech was given in June 2008. Excerpt: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God ... That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
Elsehwere in the speech, re a pending pipeline project: "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."
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Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine [6]
An interesting and nuanced perspective, combining an appreciation for the culture of the Marines (and its flaws), an awareness of the high strategic stakes involved in any civilian killings by U.S. troops, and a much-needed reminder that U.S. forces have
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Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine
An interesting and nuanced perspective, combining an appreciation for the culture of the Marines (and its flaws), an awareness of the high strategic stakes involved in any civilian killings by U.S. troops, and a much-needed reminder that U.S. forces have
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Thanksgiving in Fallujah: things are looking up
Heartening news as the Marines, their mission largely achieved, begin to dismantle patrol bases in Fallujah.
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Frank Rich: Americans need to wake up & pay attention
Rich argues that the longer the misguided Bush policies remain in effect -- the disastrous Iraq "surge," torturing detainees, retrograde legal and fiscal measures -- the more morally culpable the U.S. public becomes.
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A former US official in Iraq on Blackwater's tactics
Jessica Gans, who was posted in Iraq for two years, describes her experiences with Blackwater.
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BBC World Service's Lyse Doucet interviews former US SSG David Bellavia on Fallujah
Author of "House to House," reviewed as an extraordinarily brutal look at the 2004 Fallujah battle by a soldier committed to the cause.
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140 million Iraqis and the Maytag repairman
I first heard this joke in early 2003, before the invasion even began. It has some serious staying power if you ask me. It's kind of funny, and kind of not funny, at the same time.
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Bill Kristol: "Why Bush will be a winner"
Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard gives a mostly positive assessment of the Bush presidency. I mostly disagree, but it's worth a read. He's vague on what he thinks the U.S.'s real goals in Iraq are, but he is confident Petraeus will achieve them.
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Just close your eyes and repeat after me ...
Just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, and repeat after me: "9-11 ... weapons of mass destruction ... al-Qaeda ... birth pangs of a new Middle East ... spreading democracy and freedom ... better off without Saddam ... 9-11 ... last throes
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Learning from history: the British pullout from Iraq, 1932
Maj. Joel Rayburn, a historian and officer now posted to CENTCOM, writes about the dangers of a too-hasty exit from Iraq, drawing on the British experience post-WWI. I need to read this more carefully, but it seems his ideas present a pretty strong rebuke
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Nir Rosen on the roots of the Iraq disaster
Rosen responds to Bremer's self-justifying editorial in the Washington Post (http://snipurl.com/1lnc9) and shows that Bremer's policies early in the Iraq occupation probably contributed materially to the problems we're having now. Significantly, he shows
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Quotes: conservative pundits on Iraq, 4 years ago
No comment. Just have a look.
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"We have discredited democracy in the eyes of Iraqis"
Rory Stewart, an experienced British development worker, served in the coalition provincial administration of Iraq for a time. Here is his perspective on the state of affairs there. Significantly, he thinks the MNF's presence is "not improving things," be
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Civilian deaths in Iraq: causes and consequences
Tucker argues that the Haditha debacle is symptomatic of an overstretched military that can no longer tell enemies from noncombatants, and points out, citing Petraeus's own work, that each civilian death makes counterinsurgency work harder and more danger
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Baghdad death-squad killings on the rise
One of the major objectives of the surge was to end, or at least reduce, killings by death squads in the capital. However, since the surge began, the killings unfortunately seem to be increasing instead. Northern MNF commander Mixon says he needs more tro
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McCain's "bring-'em-on" moment [4]
McCain says he'll be happy to visit Sorja market again, "with or without military protection." Hmm. Somehow I have a feeling he won't be putting his money where his mouth is anytime soon.
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