by Dave McGill
One week ago, it was announced that the Marja campaign would take another month before the Taliban could be routed and the area secured.

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
I had a fascinating email conversation over the weekend on the Middle East conflict, and it seems worthy of reproducing here. Not just because of the issues raised but because they encapsulate the difficulty of even agreeing on what the central questions are.

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by Dave McGill
About the same time that India conducted a test demonstrating it now has the ability to deliver a nuclear bomb to any target in the Middle East – or China – Iran provided more evidence that it intends to continue attempting to join the nine nations that comprise the so-called nuclear club.

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by Dave McGill
President Obama uttered these annoying words yesterday and it is just another of the many reasons that incumbents in both parties are in serious trouble. The statement was annoying, not just because it was premature – which it was – but because it was obviously based on conditions in the corporate sector [...]

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by Don Smith
In a recent Talk of the Town, The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg wrote:
And in the nether reaches of the left blogosphere the epithets flew. Obama is a “sellout.” He’s a “liar.” He’s a “Judas,” a “fraud,” a “corrupt fool.” He’s a “Liebermanite.” (Ouch!)
Was he referring to sites like OpEdNews? Sure seems that way. [...]

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