Thursday, October 21

Two reports reveal Afghan War bottom line

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Yaroslav Trofimov's October 18 report for the Wall Street Journal on the Taliban gains in Afghanistan's north explains much about ...
Wednesday, October 20

Newshoggers on Pakistan and U.S. "Military-Industrial Welfare"

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Steve Hynd at Newshoggers coined the term while describing the self-defeating practice of the U.S. giving money to Pakistan's military ...

Team Obama announces plan to give more money to Pakistan military

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BFF: Generals Petraeus and Kayani in Kabul Is the promise of yet more aid money an attempt to placate Rawalpindi ahead of Obama's trip t...

Reports: For months NATO has been facilitating Karzai talks with al Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani and Quetta shura

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Hamid Karzai in tears about violence in Afghanistan AP - Oct 20 Afghan Lawmaker: Karzai in talks with Haqqani By DEB RIECHMANN and KATHY GAN...
Tuesday, October 19

Why Western aid reinforces the worst about Pakistani society

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In Stay Out of the Bazaar I discussed obstacles to U.S.-Pakistan communication that are rooted in cultural differences. In this post I'...
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Obama at War: First we get a sieve to empty the bathtub, then we keep the tub faucet on full blast

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Yesterday Long War Journal gave their prestigious Captain Louis Renault Award to an unnamed NATO official. This was for his providing CNN ...

"The British don't know who they are, so they can't teach us how to adapt."

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Merkel: Multiculturalism has "utterly failed" in Germany I dislike many of David Frum's views so I thought hard before highlig...
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Sunday, October 17

Updates on the murder of David Michael Hartley

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The Hartleys on vacation I'm still adding updates on news about the case and my impressions of the ongoing investigation to my October 3...
Saturday, October 16

Waking the Watchmen, Part 4

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The night was not cold but exhaustion and physical shock had set in. I was shivering so badly and my mouth was so dry that I could only chok...
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Wednesday, October 13

Steve Diamond lets rip about phony radicalism

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Too many on the left fall for ... pro-Castro and pro-Hugo Chavez politics, a modern day version of the third worldism that the Weather Under...
Tuesday, October 12

Will wonders never cease

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After 13 days the murder of David Michael Hartley has finally made it onto the front page of Google News. I guess the gremlins that pick the...

A respite for me from Mordor's onslaught

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Yesterday I wrote: "Lately I have been throwing tantrums on this blog; that these arise from despair about the awful state of the war a...
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Monday, October 11

For Rajeev and Madhu: Finish the Dance

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Finish The Dance The above photograph was taken from a Youtube video of a Bharata Natyam recital. Many years ago I was a guest at a similar...

Christopher Columbus

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Today is a federal holiday in the USA -- the day the United States joins with much of Latin America and the Caribbean countries to officiall...
Sunday, October 10

Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban

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Of course this is not really news, other than Karzai's confirmation of the talks. Somehow, I just can't think of any other words to ...

Two suspects named in murder of David Hartley on Falcon Lake

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AOL News : ... Tamaulipas State Police Commander Juan Carlos Ballesteros told the El Universal newspaper that authorities are searching fo...
Saturday, October 9

China's Possum Tale: Reaction to Nobel Peace Prize award to Liu Xiaobo

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Please do not humiliate me. I am a poor developing country. I do not know, and I am pretty sure I don't want to know, why young possums ...