Tuesday, February 28, 2006

What Comes Next in Iraq?

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Iraq the Model's Mohammed says there may be attempts to form a united front of Sunnis and Shia against the United States (ht Roger L. S...

John Fund on the Yale Taliban

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John Fund (ht lgf) is not happy with the Yale Taliban featured in the New York Times Sunday Magazine: I don't believe Mr. Rahmatullah h...

Remember Ukraine?

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Neeka's Backlog has new photos of Yulia Timoshenko's campaign . Will she depose Yushchenko to become the next President of the Repub...

A Russian Anecdote

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(Photo by And-rey ) Yesterday, I took a Russian friend to the airport. She was returning to Moscow. Before boarding her flight, while she w...
Monday, February 27, 2006

Some Differences Between the UK and UAE

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Since the perceptually challenged President Bush and administration apologists like Frances Fragos Townsend can't see the obvious, Miche...

Saudi Arabia Behind Danish Cartoon Crisis

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So say Dr. Ali H. Alyami and Colonel B. Wayne Quist , who explain the international political calculation underlying the Danish Cartoon Cris...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

A Question for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Adam Garfinkle, once a speechwriter for former Secretary of Stte Colin Powell, now editor of The American Interest, blogs here that Seth Cr...

Dynamic Russia

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In Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and US Strategy, a 1998 publication from the RAND Corporation's "Pro...

Reese Schonfeld on CNN's Danish Cartoon-phobia

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Ted Turner's co-founder of CNN, Reese Schonfeld , doesn't think much of CNN's non-coverage of the Danish Cartoon Crisis: Does CN...

Hurrah for Christopher Hitchens!

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Joel Gelman says Hitchens' stock is on the rise: Christopher Hitchens seems to understand the titanic struggle of civilizations that is...

Bush to Declare New Cold War?

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That sounds like the bottom line of Peter Baker's article about America's relations with Russia, in today's Washington Post: Cri...

Mark Steyn on Paris' Halimi Murder

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From SteynOnline (ht lgf): In five years' time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey...
Saturday, February 25, 2006

This Book Looks Interesting . . .

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Just found this as part of my research, and ordered a copy of this indictment of NGO neo-colonialism from Amazon.com. It reminds me of the...

New Sisyphus: Declare War Now on Jihadi States

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The former US State Deparment Official blogging as New Sisyphus says President Bush has not been tough enough, and argues Andrew Jackson wa...

Neeka's Backlog

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Saw a link to a post on this site on Neeka's Backlog , and thought I'd return the favor. Thanks, Neeka!

Video of Christopher Hitchens' Danish Cartoon Solidarity Speech

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At the Age of Hooper blog (scroll down).(ht the Christopher Hitchens website ). Here's a transcript from The Adventures of Chester (ht...
Friday, February 24, 2006

"Solidarity With Denmark--Death To Fascism!" Conclusion

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Not all the demonstrators were conservatives.   For example, this is Will Marshall, a Clinton Democrat, and BMOC at the Progressive Policy I...

"Solidarity With Denmark--Death To Fascism!", Cont'd.

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There were a number of reporters and photographers in the crowd in front of the Danish Embassy--yes, it is indeed across the street from Sen...

"Solidarity With Denmark--Death To Fascism!"

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That was Christopher Hitchens' rallying cry to the hundred or so demonstrators gathered in front of the Danish Embassy at lunchtime in W...

Chirac Attends Jewish Funeral in Paris

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The deceased Ilan Halimi had been kidnapped, tortured, and then murdered by an anti-semitic Islamic gang, Ha'aretz reports : PARIS - Cri...