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11 Nov 09

Iraq looks to go nuclear | FP Passport

  • 28 years ago, Israel launched an airstrike
    against the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad, terrified by the prospect of
    an Iraq with nuclear weapons. 19 year ago, the U.N. imposed comprehensive
    economic sanctions
    against Iraq, declaring the country's nuclear program needed oversight. Seven years
    ago, former president Bush announced
    that an Iraq with access to weapons of mass destruction, potentially including
    nuclear technology, demanded a U.S. military response.



    And six years after that invasion, Iraq is lobbying
    to rebuild nuclear reactors
    . Just one more entry for FP's list
    of states looking to go nuclear to lose sleep over.

10 Nov 09

Interview on the Charlie Rose Show

  • QUESTION: Is Germany on board with respect to Afghanistan?

    SECRETARY CLINTON: I think Germany is committed to the effort in Afghanistan. They’re waiting, like the rest of the world is, the United States, and through President Obama, to announce our intentions and our way forward. But they have a deep understanding of why this is important for NATO, why this is important for the larger international community. And I think that given the right measures of accountability that we need to be seeking from President Karzai and his government, we’re going to see a commitment not just from Germany, but from many of our NATO allies.

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Rumsfeld: Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up
    come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost.
    How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other
    countries, is an open question. I think the way to put it into
    perspective is that the estimates as to what September 11th cost the
    United States of America ranges high up into the hundreds of billions
    of dollars. Now, another event in the United States that was like
    September 11th, and which cost thousands of lives, but one that
    involved a -- for example, a biological weapon, would be -- have a cost
    in human life, as well as in billions, hundreds of billions of dollars,
    that would be vastly greater," - January 19, 2003.
28 Oct 09

Washington Post Budget Editorial is So Wrong Because... | Capital Gains and Games

  • To paraphrase former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, you go to war with the economy you have rather than the one you would like.
  • But the fact that you go to war doesn’t mean that you can do what the Post recommends: Ignore the economic effect the additional federal spending and borrowing will have.
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U.S. defense bill would pay Taliban to switch sides | International | Reuters

  • The defense bill President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday.
  • similar to one used in Iraq
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27 Oct 09

Call in the Civilians | Foreign Policy

  • Amid the roiling controversy over U.S.
    strategy in Afghanistan,
    one fact often gets lost: The soldiers are only half the picture.
  • the Army's new counterinsurgency
    manual
    sees as objective No. 1: "foster[ing] development of effective
    governance by a legitimate government."
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24 Oct 09

Think Progress » T. Boone Pickens: U.S. ‘entitled’ to Iraqi oil.

  • Yet in remarks to Congress yesterday, Pickens revealed that he is just as interested as ever in tying our national security to oil interests in the Middle East, suggesting that American oil companies are “entitled” to Iraq’s oil because we spent blood and treasure invading the Arab country
  • the U.S. is a signatory to the Hague Conventions, which specifically bar the confiscation of private property by occupying powers.
23 Oct 09

More shocking problems at the Baghdad embassy | The Cable

  • The State Department is owed $134 million by a Kuwaiti firm that
    poorly and dangerously constructed the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, according
    to a newly released report by the Inspector General's Office.
  • which
    opened last April almost one year late and more than $100 million over the $592
    million budget
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09 Oct 09

Under the Banner of the 'War' on Terror

  • deranged society's normal processes and purposes with a brilliantly seductive political message: Terror pre-empts everything else.
  • restart the cold war
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29 Sep 09

A Turning Point For Afghan War, And For Obama : NPR

  • Obama must decide whether to renew America's commitment to the war and boost troop levels by more than 50 percent.
  • Now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has told the Pentagon that he needs as many as 40,000 soldiers on top of the 68,000 scheduled to be there by the end of the year, Obama increasingly is being backed into a corner.
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19 Sep 09

Dear President Bush, - The Atlantic (October 2009)

  • the failure to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora; the intelligence fiasco of Saddam’s nonexistent stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction; the failure to prepare for an insurgency in Iraq; the reckless disbandment of the Iraqi army; the painful slowness in adapting to drastically worsening conditions there in 2004–06; the negligence toward Afghanistan.
  • But because of the way you chose to treat prisoners in American custody in wartime—a policy that degraded human beings with techniques typically deployed by brutal dictatorships—we lost this moral distinction early
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