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Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 25th of July 2010 at 10:32:12 PM
I was reading through this compendium of bad news from Afghanistan on the NYTimes today. It saddens to to be as right has I have been about the outcome of both Iraq and Afghanistan. The bottom line is that I was just young enough to have the memories of Vietnam and The Soviet War [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 21st of February 2008 at 06:34:58 PM
I have an RSS feed to my desktop of newly published Rand reports. I tend to read the summaries instead of the long studies, as even a student of the world doesn’t need to know the detail invovled in 700 pages treatises on a particular subject.
The report cited in the title, War by [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 2nd of January 2008 at 10:27:09 PM
Hope is defined as ‘a wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.’
It is not clear to me how the ugliest and most wasteful vehicle ever made, one that goes against every reasonable trend in the world, is the root cause of why we are fighting a war in Iraq and [...]