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A friend at the NYT?
I’ve seen interviews with the NYT’s John Burns on a couple of news shows recently. There can be little doubt that few people know more about the situation in Iraq…
Iraqis
citizens or residents of Iraq
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OK, what’s up?
Middle Easterners try to sneak into the Port of Miami. A strong smell of natural gas covers lower Manhattan. Dead birds are found in downtown Austin and officials are trying…
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The two Gates opposition strains
Democrats are already questioning the nomination of Robert Gates as the next Secretary of Defense because of his closeness to the Iran-Contra affair of 1987. And I just heard on…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Ilario Pantano drew international attention when the U.S. Marine faced murder charges in the killings of two Iraqis. He beat the charges, wrote a book about his experiences in the…
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Article in NC State’s Technician: “From War to the Classroom”
Kudos to Technician for printing this article, about three students — Jeremy Pfistner, Phillip Yeakey and Nathan Smith — who came to NC State after serving in Iraq: Yeakey spent…
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More Fun with Parsons
Parsons Corporation — the parent to Parsons Transportation Group, late of the South Blvd. rail project — has a small problem in Iraq. The Washington Post reports: A $75 million…
Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
For planning purposes What: John Locke Foundation Headliner Luncheon When: Noon Thursday, September 28, 2006 Where: Country Club of Landfall 800 Sun Runner Place, Wilmington, NC 28405 (Directions are available…
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Leadership
It might be rather erroneous to invoke the American Revolution when speaking of modern-day Iraq, but just such a thought occured to me while reading the most recent issue of…
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Too much glee
Yesterday I posted that it would take no time before some stuffed-shirt, tight-reared liberal MSM-type person would scold us all for cheering the death of Beheader-in-Chief Zarqawi. It’s happened obliquely…
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What a guy
In case you’ve forgotten his role in the whole Iraq mess, Dan Darling has the following assessment: Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Zarqawi has emerged as the primary terrorist…
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Spinning the war
The top editor at U.S. News & World Report calls on American leaders to develop a better plan for “spinning the war.” Yet the latest column from Mortimer B. Zuckerman…
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Freakonomics at War
It’s not Stephen Leavitt, but a group of economists compared the monetary cost of war versus containment in Iraq, whether either policy would save Iraqi lives, and the effect on…