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Random Talkback on YNet

Nathan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:48:22 +0000

In all the fur flying all over the place over Gaza I notices this one talkback from an article on YNet about the death of an IDF soldier.

17. the my arab friends being that you are 1000 years behind the times,i find it interesting that you believe everything your on FREE press prints.i [...]

Things That Stick: The Cost of War

Nathan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:10:40 +0000

Forgive me, as it was a long time ago, but in my 11th grade year I had, for some period of time a teacher named Mr. Souder (forgive the spelling too!). He was a way leftie, as I recall his area of research; how labor unions prevented a socialist revolution from happening in the [...]

Does This Sound Familiar?

Nathan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:33:36 +0000

I copy this directly from the pages of WikiPedia:

Reinforcing the relative decline in U.S. power and the dissatisfaction of Europe and Japan with the system was the continuing decline of the dollar—the foundation that had underpinned the post-1945 global trading system. The Vietnam War and the refusal of the administration of U.S. President [...]

War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency

Nathan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:34:58 +0000

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 [...]

The Latest Mindfuck

Nathan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:27:09 +0000

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 [...]

One More Time: Being Right Is SOOOO Nice!

Nathan — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:50:15 +0000

As you might be reading about our President’s recent speech in which he continues to show his detachment from reality.

From the Wash Post:

Historian Robert Dallek, who has written about the comparisons of Iraq to Vietnam, accused Bush of twisting history. ‘It just boggles my mind, the distortions I feel are perpetrated here [...]

We Were Right, er Left!

Nathan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:01:25 +0000

HAHAHAHA – Do a little dance, we were right:

After offering a bleak assessment of the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said today that he was urging lawmakers and President Bush to change course quickly to protect a further erosion [...]

Fall Guy

Nathan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:03:36 +0000

Listening to the verdict made me laugh, G-d Bless America, please we need every blessing we can get.

Libby obstructed justice, committed perjury and made false statements when he told FBI agents and the grand jury investigating the leak that he had possessed no official knowledge

I appears that Libby is the fall guy [...]

This Is So Much Fun! Nuclear Annihilation & Climate Change

Nathan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:20:32 +0000

G-d Bless Rand:

President George W. Bush’s most recent address to the American people on Iraq may be the scariest presidential message since Ronald Reagan announced that he had launched a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. Reagan was just kidding. Bush is not.

Immediate reaction to the president’s speech has focused on the [...]

Kind Of Nice To Be Right

Nathan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:25:08 +0000

But it kind of sucks too. I just did a quick lunchtime read of the The Iraq Study Report and the situation is not looking too good for Iraq. I wish I could say I was amused, even sarcastically bemused, at the smug sense I get while reading. Everything those of us on my [...]