Tag: war
member name: Firoze H.
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September 14, 2006 07:13 AM EDT --
In a hard hitting speech to German university students last Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI (he's German too) at long last told it like it is. He said that violence, embodied in the Muslim idea of jihad, . . .
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November 05, 2006 05:53 AM EST --
Probably the most important and divisive issue in the 2006 United States Congressional election is the problem of Iraq. The Democrats are portraying it as a political and military misadventure of gigantic . . .
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April 05, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
The hot button issue in the USA right now is the Democratic Party’s proposal to start withdrawing US troops from Iraq this summer and complete the withdrawal by April 2008. It’s another matter . . .
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July 17, 2007 02:10 AM EDT --
In recent months, outsourcing has been elevated to a whole new level. Forget about help desks and computer programmers. The Pentagon is now outsourcing its fighting men. The US army is renting out entire . . .
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November 17, 2007 08:23 AM EST --
I watched the Democratic Presidential debate last Thursday. During the second half, members of the audience got to ask questions of the candidates on the stage. One lady stood up with her son, who had . . .
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September 11, 2007 04:08 AM EDT --
So, according to the progress report – and all those fancy charts - delivered by US general Petreus, the surge is working. Impressive percentages are being trotted out about the fall in number of . . .
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March 19, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
For the past five years, the news coming out of Iraq has been almost universally depressing: suicide bombings, marines getting killed or severely disabled, civilian casualties. Therefore, it . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:20 AM EDT --
Men like to fight. It's in their genes. This perhaps explains why wars have been a fact of life since the dawn of civilization. Throughout most of history, the womenfolk have had no option . . .
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November 16, 2006 12:16 AM EST --
The Democrats are not the only ones rejoicing over their comprehensive win in the recent Congressional elections.
Abu Hamza Al Muhajer, the chief of Al Qaida in Iraq, in an audio message posted on the . . .
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September 18, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Those technology boffins really crack me up sometimes. I read in the paper today that a British arms manufacturer named BAE Systems is developing "environmentally friendly" weapons. These . . .
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October 09, 2006 02:14 AM EDT --
Ladies and Gentlemen! In the red corner: the world's sole superpower with the most powerful military arsenal in human history. In the green corner: a bunch of semi-literate bearded guys with AK-47s . . .
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October 26, 2006 03:12 AM EDT --
I am offering up this analogy without comment - merely telling it like it is.
America entered the war in Vietnam ostensibly for the same reason it started the war in Iraq - to impose democracy and "freedom" . . .
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June 01, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
Back in the 1990’s – after the disintegration of the Soviet Union - if you were one of those optimistic Americans who thought the Cold War was over and the US had won; it’s time for a . . .
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