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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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Liberals Call for Dismissal of ‘Politicized’ General

Posted on November 13, 2009. Filed under: afghanistan, barack obama, blogging, military, news, politics | Tags: , , , |

By Con George-Kotzabasis

WigWag surprisingly is on a fool’s errand. While he acknowledges the importance of victory in Afghanistan that could be delivered by the “proper course’ of McChrystal and the multi-dimensional effects such a victory would have on global jihadists, at the same time he would be willing to pull a “MacArthur” on a [...]

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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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Appease! Appease! Is the Clamour of American Liberals

Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: Middle East, blogging, military, news, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

…Clemons will go down in the chronicles of American history… as the mini American…

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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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