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• Taliban lite? Afghans ponder power-sharing

  Tue Feb 7, 2012
  • Rick Santorum: American Taliban.

• Taliban lite? Afghans ponder power-sharing

  Tue Feb 7, 2012
  • So that is why we invaded Afghanistan and killed hundreds of thousands of people: to help them! But weren't the Russians already doing that? Building schools for girls, hiring women to work for the Red Army in civilian capacities, teaching the men to treat the women better.

• As al-Qaida recedes, new, hard-to-grip challenges confront US security

  Tue Jan 31, 2012
  • Sure there'll be more challenges. How to find a new bogeyman with which to scare us. That was neocon movement founder Leo Strauss's great concern. But not to worry. Adlai Stevenson used to say that Americans were suckers for good news. A corollary would be, Americans are suckers for bad news.

• Al-Qaida in decline, but threats to US multiply

  Tue Jan 31, 2012
  • Why don't you suggest some sites for Gerald to explore? As it stands, your post is a waste of space.

• 'Extremist' speaker withdraws from West Point event after protests

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Nationalism and religious fundamentalism usually surge when a country or region is under attack. A good study of the modern history of the Middle East will inform the reader that the west has been the aggressor for the last century.

• 'Extremist' speaker withdraws from West Point event after protests

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • That is as daft a claim as saying that Jews want to implement Halachic law in the US. It seems that every 25 years or so America has to have a new enemy, or the people aren't happy. I recommend instead reading a good, scary thriller.

• 'Extremist' speaker withdraws from West Point event after protests

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Why don't you give us a hint?

• Man spends 2 years in solitary after DWI arrest

  Wed Jan 25, 2012
  • Who do you think works in the prison industrial complex? A bunch of sadists and losers.

• Man, 19, accused in firebomb attacks on NJ synagogues

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • How the media slant things! Those Marines who urinated on the Afghan corpses are boys, this guy is a man.

• US moves embassy staff in Bahrain as anniversary of uprising approaches

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • Leave it to democracy-loving America to support minority rule in Bahrain.