Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Private Armies of Iraq

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The market value 100 billion dollars; Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq by David Isenberg Private Sector, Public Wars: Cont...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Iraq Surplus

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In Iraq, Far From a Deficit Related Report; Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus ; Iraq has an estimat...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

‘Powers that be’ and 'Powers that aren’t in Iraq

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“ The most prominent dividing line in Iraqi politics now is between the ‘powers that be’ and the ‘powers that aren’t ,’ ” Sam Parker, an Ara...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The costs of war keep increasing

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Mr. Dwyer died last month in North Carolina. He was 31 and very sick. For years he had been in and out of treatment for post-traumatic stres...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Islam vs Christianity

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Rev. Chloe Breyer and James Pinkerton on Blogging Heads- a bit misleading title. Other topics discussed Columbia University expansion,...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Library of Nineveh

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History podcast of the Day- The Library of Nineveh ; In 1849 a young English adventurer called Henry Layard started digging into a small h...
Friday, May 16, 2008

The Golf Sacrifice

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In a rather obsequious and fawning interview with the US newspaper Politico and Yahoo News, Bush disclosed that he was enjoying a game of go...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

"Errors are not lies"- Doug Feith

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War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism by Douglas J. Feith Related; Douglas Feith, undersecretary of def...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Fall and Rise of Islamic State

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Why Shariah?
Monday, April 28, 2008

Movie Recommendation

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War Inc
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Message Force Multipliers

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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as “message force multipli...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

On "good" politicians and "bad" policies

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On "good" politicians and "bad" policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth ; Summary: Social cohesion - that i...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Chalabi's caused the War?

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The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi Aram Roston
Monday, April 7, 2008

Is counterinsurgency the solution?

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Lt. Col. Gian Gentile, a history professor here who served two tours in Iraq, begs to differ. He argues that Gen. Petraeus's counterinsu...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Good Intentions Corrupted

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Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and mili...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Cost of War for Iraq

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When will a Nobel laureate write a book about the cost of Iraq War for Iraq ;
Friday, March 28, 2008

Did the Iraq War cause the sub-prime crisis

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Try the following thought experiment ; As a matter of arithmatic, Stiglitz may be right. But does he really think that, absent the war, we w...
Monday, March 24, 2008

4000 dead and counting

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NYT posts e-mail excerpts from dead US soldiers; Staff Sgt. Juan Campos, 27, who was riding in a Humvee on May 14, 2007, when it hit an IED...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

A Primer on Shariah

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An interesting article in the NYT by Noah Feldman ; In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane lega...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Iraq War: The First Five Years of .... Years

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"Saddam and Terrorism" report now online Questions Petraeus cannot answer Stuck in the Iraq Loop ; There is a paradox in the curre...