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- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
- Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity
- The situation and some possible courses of action … A Pat Lang post reposted from 26 February 2022
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- A Note On Our Folly By Walrus
- Israel attacks Iranian embassy in Damascus
Monthly Archives: November 2006
“Fiasco,” – A Book Review. W. Patrick Lang
Download fiascoa_book_review.doc Download fiascoa_book_review.pdf This review will appear in the next quartely number of "Middle East Policy." I will post the URL for it when it appears. Pat Lang
Posted in Books
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Falling Back to Re-Group?
"The White House has turned to the Iraq Study Group, boosting the congressionally mandated panel’s profile in the past week both in a postelection press conference and again with a day full of meetings between the group’s members and administration … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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“May It Be”
I am still thinking over the decider’s actions today. Enjoy. pl Download may_it_be.wmv
’41 did not know about Gates.
For all those enamored of the ’41 is "comin’ to town" school of future history, I offer the factoid that Brit Hume announced on FNS today that GHW Bush did not know anything about Gates’ appointment as SECDEF until called … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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In Memoriam – November 11, 2006
Sergeant Willsun M. Mock, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment was killed in action 22 October, 2006. Sergeant Mock was serving his second tour of duty in Iraq. PL ——————————————————————— "The minstrel boy to the war has gone, In the ranks … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
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The ISG farce, Part 2
"..The group of mainstream foreign policy experts is not poised to make radical suggestions when it unveils its report, but official Washington has expected both parties to seize on its ideas for political cover…" Kessler and Ricks in Washpost. —————————————————————————— … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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A Mass Delusion?
For days now my telephone has been ringing with calls from people who want me to tell them that sanity and adult leadership are returning to the shores of the Potomac. A man called today to have me say a … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Webb’s Dog-Tags
Jim Webb doesn’t want his friends to talk about his combat record. He thinks it is “unseemly” to trade on one’s service to country for political gain. It is like him to use that word. He is an old fashioned … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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A Pitiful Sect
"Perle goes so far as to say that, if he had his time over, he would not have advocated an invasion of Iraq: "I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Politics
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