Iraq

Frolicsome Realists of The Washington Note Attack Wolfowitz

Posted on August 31, 2009. Filed under: Iran, Iraq, Middle East, afghanistan, blogging, media, news, politics | Tags: , , , , , , |

…in critical moments you can count that real pals will show up…

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Discussion with a Norwegian Writer what Kind of Society Could ‘Bring On’ an Apocalypse?

Posted on October 28, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, media, military, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , , , |

…the best strategy against militant fanatic Islam is to go to it with an olive branch in hand…

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The Treason of the Media

Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: Iraq, media, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , , , |

…no compromise is possible and all overtures of diplomacy are bound to fail…

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Merry Go Round Discussion with Two American Liberals Whether the War is Being Won

Posted on August 15, 2008. Filed under: Iraq, media, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

After failing in all his prognostications about the unwinnable war and showering for years with mockery and disparagementthe proponents and supporters of the war…

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Obama’s Plan for Withdrawal Replaces Living Victorious Strategy with Dead Strategy

Posted on July 17, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, media, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
 Obama is no leader but a pretender! The sentence in the first paragraph of his Op-Ed in the NT on July 14, 2008, says it all. “The phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated,” which he trumpeted before the surge, he continues to consider as being wise in conditions when [...]

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A Reply to an American who Blames U.S. Policies for Irruption of Terror

Posted on March 11, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
This is no time for populist politicians like Obama, nor, could I say, for “aureole” New York Times commentators like Paul Krugman, who are attempting to bait the electorate’s hate of the Republicans. But for politicians with mettle, sagacity, and visual clarity and imagination to deal with the stupendous issues that America faces [...]

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THE MECHANISTIC THINKING OF CIVIL LIBERTARIANS

Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, Middle East, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , , , |

A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to: Keeping Australia Safe By An Improper Exercise Of Power  By Surya Deva
On Line Opinion  July 28, 2007  
The mechanistic thinking and unimaginative conclusions of this article are typical of someone who has been trained in legal studies and who carries proudly and aloft the banner of the civil libertarians. The latter as [...]

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A Response To An American Isolationist

Posted on February 9, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, blogging, media, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , |

 By Con George-Kotzabasis
It’s in the nature of power politics from the Roman republican times of Scipio Africanus (Carthage must be destroyed), to our own that no superpower can metastasize itself into isolationism, as your “minding our own business” implies. A benign superpower such as America by its ineluctable engagement with the world is the axis [...]

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NEW YEAR FAIRY TALES OF AN EDUCATED MUSLIM MASQUERADING AS REALITY

Posted on January 10, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, blogging, government, media, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , , , |

A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to:
Domestic Issues Return To Spotlight
By Waleed Aly, The Australian December 27, 2007
The lawyer and commentator on political and Muslim affairs Waleed Aly argues in his latest co-ed like someone who has a brief as an undercover agent. To disseminate a false sense of peace in times of war purportedly to [...]

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IRAN’S NUCLEAR LUNGE FOR POWER

Posted on December 30, 2007. Filed under: Blogroll, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, blogging, government, military, news, politics, thoughts, war | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

SEASON’S GREETINGS
A healthy, joyous, industrious, and challenging 2008 to all readers and commentators of this blog
Political, Not Nuclear, Power Play 
 By Rami G. Khouri Newsweek PostGlobal
 
A brief reply by Con George-Kotzabasis
True realism today consists in recognizing the action of ideologies upon diplomatic-strategic conduct. Raymond Aron
Iraq under Saddam was a secular expansionist Arab power with crystal clear [...]

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