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Debate between American and Australian about Merits of War against Islamist Terrorists

Posted on November 21, 2009. Filed under: Middle East, barack obama, blogging, media, military, news, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

American says,
For those who think we need to redouble our efforts to “win” the war in Afghanistan, I take it they mean we need to do whatever it takes, militarily and financially, to build a stable Afghan state run headed by a secure and US-friendly government. I have two problems with this idea. First, I [...]

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Putin’s Russia is to Weaken U.S. and Will not Support Sanctions against Iran

Posted on November 7, 2009. Filed under: Iran, Middle East, blogging, media, military, news, politics | Tags: , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
Posted by kotzabasis, Sep 24 2009, 4:58AM – Link
Nadine, you are wasting your valuable time retorting to the political banalities of Norheim and his kindred spirits inundating The Washington Note.
Dmitry Medvedev’s “in some cases, sanctions are inevitable,” is the noose that the clever chess playing Russians are putting around the naive neck of [...]

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Fanatics are Unapproachable to the Dictates of Reason

Posted on October 9, 2009. Filed under: Middle East, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
I don’t know if Tamils were the first suicide bombers prior to the Palestinians—perhaps some other commentator in this thread could disabuse my ignorance– but my comparison was between Christians and Muslims so your point is completely pointless.
As for American pilots being suicide-bombers in the Battle of Midway, one must really overstretched one’s imagination. [...]

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American Uses Peloponnesian War to Prove Unwinnable War in Afghanistan

Posted on October 1, 2009. Filed under: afghanistan, blogging, media, news, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
I fail to see how my “syntax and phraseology” relates to your argument and your need to criticize it. But indeed I’m “touchy”, with your attempt to present yourself as a serious thinker on the complex issues of war and of history.
The incongruity of your argument to the quote from Thucydides is diaphanous, [...]

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Moonshine Romantics Run Away from Sunny Reality

Posted on September 29, 2009. Filed under: blogging, media, military, news, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

…strengthening the dangerous fantasies of soft power as an antidote to the dangerous realities emanating from…

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Periclean Athens and American Exceptionalism

Posted on September 20, 2009. Filed under: blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , , |

..I have a sneaking suspicion that American exceptionalism is actually rather…

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‘Hornless’ Bulls Stampede True Facts

Posted on September 9, 2009. Filed under: Iran, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts |

…The westerly civilized Israelis have never threatened with their nuclear arsenal anyone to “wipe” them “off-the-map.”…

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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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Mosque-Made Terrorism

Posted on August 23, 2009. Filed under: Middle East, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis
Short reply to: Not in the name of our Islam By Orhan Cicek
ON LINE opinion August 07, 2009
Who is going to educate the educator? The author of the article, Orhan Cicek, engages in a litany of the good aspects of the Muslim religion but abhors identifying its bad aspects from which Muslim terrorism [...]

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Islamists Cannot be Pacified by Olive Branches but only by Fire of War

Posted on August 15, 2009. Filed under: Middle East, blogging, media, military, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: , , , , , |

…fanaticism will not be influenced, soothed, abated, or defeated by moral examples…

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