Christopher Hitchens, writing in Slate, Pakistan Is the Problem: And Barack Obama Seems to Be the Only Candidate Willing to Face It:
We were all warned of this many years ago. When the Clinton administration sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in reprisal for the attacks on our embassies in East Africa, the missiles missed Osama Bin [...]
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Hitchens on Pakistan and Obama
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September 18, 2008 at 5:31pm
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Scary: Palin threatens war against Russia
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September 11, 2008 at 8:00pm
by thecodepounder
This is real fucking scary. ABC News, (Republican VP Candidate Speaks with ABC News’ Charles Gibson in Exclusive Interview):
On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security and said that war with Russia may be necessary if Georgia were to join NATO and [...]
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And, the final Jeopardy category: Who will the U.S. invade next?
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September 4, 2008 at 10:45am
by thecodepounder
It hasn’t received much attention, what with topical depression Sarah distracting everyone, but the United States military conducted a raid (which is downplay-speak for a military attack operation) inside Pakistan yesterday.
“Borders? We don’t respect your stinkin’ borders! ” (You’ll just have to imagine Alfonso Bedoya’s cheesy Mexican accent from 1948’s The Treasure of the [...]
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D-Day +64
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June 6, 2008 at 7:03am
by thecodepounder
On this date in 1944 the Allied Invasion of Normandy began.
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Marines pull plug on apparently unofficial ‘faith-based initiative’
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May 30, 2008 at 12:47pm
by thecodepounder
I read about this yesterday on the No God Blog. It has now been reported by the “major media” that amid complaints that Marines were handing out coins promoting Christianity, at least one service member has been removed from duty in Iraq:
Sunni officials in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah said the coins were given [...]
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