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Total number of comments: 4 (since 2013-11-28 16:51:11)

amspirnational

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  • President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    • amspirnational 05/24/2013 at 5:08 pm with 2 replies

      Obama's ratings are as bad as Bush's were in the opinion polls throughout the Muslim world.

  • Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)
    • amspirnational 02/02/2013 at 4:54 pm with 4 replies

      It's clear that Joe from Lowell is here to defend the broad
      ruling class status quo in as low-key a manner as to escape Prof Cole's notice, which it shouldn't have as of many weeks ago.

  • Real Petraeus Issue was Evaluation of Afghanistan
    • Ken Hoop 11/10/2012 at 5:49 pm

      In sports terms, Petraeus being a careerist and after many other military declined Bush's plea, came in a game early in the fourth quarter with the visiting team, his, trailing
      45-7, rallied the visitors at the finish to a 52-21 loss
      and left so the vanquished team could pretend it won.
      IOW, the surge did not work (on its own terms) and if Petraeus was a truthteller he would have admitted as much.

  • Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect
    • amspirnational 09/13/2012 at 8:19 pm

      Geller does not feel "turned on" does she? Has Horowitz said he was "turned on" by his former allies yet?

      Of course if Ghadafi were still in power "AQ" could not have shot off "fairly precise" mortar fire. As the Russian
      press has elaborated thereupon.

      Tactics which Prof Cole calls "desperate" have an echo in such as Rummy and Cheney's and the Afghan command's characterization of resilient insurgencies attacks as those of a desperate fading force.

      But maybe this is different.

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