Posts Tagged ‘afghanistan’
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Pakistani Crack-Pots
Posted on December 17, 2014
When it was announced that the Pakistani Taliban slaughtered a bunch of school kids earlier this week, my mind immediately turned to Adam Lanza. Lanza was the deranged teenager who...
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Who Are These Guys?
Posted on September 1, 2014
Who are these guys? That’s the famous line from the classic movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It could also be asked of the Sunni insurgency that has overtaken...
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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Don’t Do Stupid Shit
Posted on June 2, 2014
According the news reports, President Obama has come up with a simple way to describe his foreign policy philosophy: Don’t do stupid shit. It’s clever, in a Clintonian “it’s the...
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Stuck
Posted on November 20, 2013
We are stuck in 2009 and we can’t get out....
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