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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Afghanistan
Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
Marc Garlasco helped plan the shock and awe campaign in Iraq. As soon as the war ended, he went straight to the scene of devastation to work for Human Rights Watch, standing in places he’d destroyed to meet people impacted … Continue reading
Indefinite Detention
A dialectic has taken hold on the progressive conversation, and I do not like it. The media of the digital left keeps using the words “indefinite detention” because they sound awful, which they are. Indefinite detention is not nice or … Continue reading
Winter Truce Talks with the Taliban
Without announcement, the CIA stopped carrying out drone strikes in Pakistan seven weeks ago. European allies are already endorsing peace talks with the Taliban. The president is signaling a prisoner transfer from Guantanamo to Afghanistan. The Muslim Brotherhood’s chief jurist, … Continue reading
Obama Beats All Republicans On National Security
The mission in Iraq is to get everyone and everything out by New Year’s Day. The mission in Libya has been to stay out, while the mission in Afghanistan is now to finish and get home: The 320-foot-high Kajaki Dam, … Continue reading
Iraq: It’s Finally Over
There will be no American troops in Iraq on January 1, 2012: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has told U.S. military officials that he does not have the votes in parliament to provide immunity to the American trainers, the U.S. military official … Continue reading
What Success in Afghanistan Might Look Like
It’s not a picture of triumph by arms, but peace by negotiation. Two bullets in Osama bin Laden are worth more than a hundred drone strikes. Taliban leadership has offered to give up its sanctuary relationship with al-Qaeda before; that … Continue reading
What Peak Force in Afghanistan Means for Pakistan
Remember, when Obama gives military aid to Pakistan, it’s empire. When Obama withholds that military aid, it’s still empire. From the AP, via Stars and Stripes: “If you still need the relationship, which clearly the United States does, then it … Continue reading
The Way Out Was Through
The biggest Taliban offensive of 2011 thus far lasted two days: Afghan security forces on Sunday killed a few insurgents who had barricaded themselves inside a hotel in the southern city of Kandahar, ending a two-day battle that left more … Continue reading
Martin Luther King And The “Good” War
Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson has raised another kerfuffle on the left with this: “I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should … Continue reading
When The Only Way Out Is Through
Secretary of State Clinton repeated the message yesterday, and Amanda Terkel affirmed the pattern: this president has no intention of indefinitely maintaining a large military presence in Afghanistan. America will be in extraction mode this summer. BBC, which headlined the … Continue reading
Timelines Change
The White House is still going to start withdrawing forces from Afghanistan next year, but the timeline is changing and Arianna is upset: Another official said the administration also realized in contacts with Pakistani officials that the Pakistanis had concluded … Continue reading
