Tag: america
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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June 02, 2006 12:12 AM EDT --
For the next ten years at least, the only threat to America China will mount with any amount of credibility will be an economic threat. As I said to my father early week before last, upon my first trip . . .
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February 09, 2007 11:43 PM EST --
It seems to me there is a bit of a double standard here. On the one hand the author in question writes a book, called Stealing Jesus, which the Times article in question called, "a harsh critique . . .
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June 02, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
Several days ago William Arkin wrote up a post at the WaPo about what we discussed last night. I find Arkin's post much better and more thought provoking than George Friedman's, mostly because . . .
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June 30, 2006 01:13 AM EDT --
We're in a war right? And it is a war in the shadows right? It's also a long war, right?
So why is the military treating this shadowy, long war like it's just another day in the DoD bureaucracy? . . .
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June 30, 2006 12:37 PM EDT --
I'd always thought the point of a university education was to learn how to be open-minded, to learn how to think critically, to learn how to learn. I guess all that has changed. It now looks increasingly . . .
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December 07, 2008 01:22 AM EST --
Short note: after spending much of my weekend digesting the horrific employment numbers, listening to a lot of Bloomberg podcasts and reading several of my favorite financial blogs I have come to the . . .
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July 18, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
originally posted at my blog ~ The Agonist
Last night Col. Allard and I (and Jack to a lesser extent) went around and around and around on the issue of Hezbollah and Hamas. It was a really frustrating . . .
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June 13, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
The day before yesterday and a few days before that I made allusions to and wrote about Dr. Brydon and what happened during the First Afghan War. In late 2001 I was pretty darn convinced that what is happening . . .
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July 24, 2006 02:13 PM EDT --
Question, is this boy and his mother a part of Alan Dershowitz's 'civilan continuum'?
Not that it matters a bit that Dershowitz is using the same argument Osama bin Laden made about 9/11. . . .
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August 23, 2006 06:41 PM EDT --
There is an awful lot of pinging the system going on right now. Testing defenses? Dry runs? I know some of you out there think the whole al Qaeda thing has been blown out of proportion. Of course, this . . .
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December 03, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
Here's the lede:
President Bush and his top advisors fanned out across the troubled Middle East over the last week to showcase their diplomatic initiatives to restore strained relationships with . . .
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August 23, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
I'm inclined to extend this analogy a little further when it comes to the US versus the Russians in strategic terms: it's more like chess players versus checkers players. But still, this graf . . .
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July 31, 2006 12:12 AM EDT --
This is certainly a refrain we've heard a lot lately: "what's good for Israel is good for America."
Well then, if that is the case, for those of you who support Israel as 'our number . . .
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October 04, 2006 09:37 PM EDT --
Why Not Let Them Hate Us, as long as They Fear Us?
A Speech to the United States Information Agency Alumni Association On October 4, 2006 in Washington, DC by Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Ambassador (USFS, Ret.) . . .
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November 11, 2008 04:04 AM EST --
I visited the ruins of an imperial Cham city called 'My Son' today, about 35 kilometers outside of Hoi An today. The complex was built in the 4th century AD. It's was in reasonably . . .
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December 04, 2008 12:41 AM EST --
'I've been thinking 'bout all those goods things I just let slip away.
First it was the good job, then it was the woman that I love. Then it was the car
and all the other material . . .
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June 20, 2006 10:07 PM EDT --
It really is sad when life imitates "Team America: World Police." But it is. Kim Jong-il has distracted us all. From the CFR, to "Condi Rice's stenographer of choice" at the New . . .
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June 20, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
This backgrounder on China from CFR asks some pretty damn good questions about the state of Sino-American relations and the role of China in the world. One of the most important questions in determining . . .
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August 11, 2008 04:38 AM EDT --
I remember the conversation so clearly, as if it happened yesterday. I was meeting with Alex Rondeli, a tall, smart, well-connected Georgian involved in the formation of the country's foreign . . .
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