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VDH and Ursa Major on TDP
Is the sun setting on peace between Israel and Iran?
Here’s an outstanding discussion by Victor Davis Hanson and Robert Baer on how Obama should deal with Israel and Iran. Israel now lives in the shadow of Iran’s nuclear pretensions and in a state of actual, if by proxy, war with the region’s most volatile and [...]
A Cultural Survey of Afghanistan…
The Iconic photo of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is probably one of the world’s most beautiful countries…and one of its most hopeless. The name itself, belying its fragmented reality, is derived from an alternative sobriquet for the country’s majority Pashtun population, and simply means “place of the Pashtuns” or, more wittily, “Pashtun Place”. Truth be told, the [...]
Losing Our Will…
By the dialectical playa on September 14, 2009
The misery of Afghanistan is etched into this Afghan woman’s face.
On September 1, 2009, George Will wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post entitled “Time to Get Out of Afghanistan” (see article below). As one of America’s foremost conservative pundits, Will’s article sent shudders throughout a Conservative establishment that, even after eight years of [...]
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