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Musharraf walks a tightrope

Friday, December 28, 2007 9:19 PM
In the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi, Pakistan yesterday, the country continues to descend into chaos . President Pervez Musharraf has some tough choices ahead of him, none of which appear particularly appealing. The death of Musharraf's
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In which I engage in wild speculation on Bush, Iran, Iraq, and the NIE

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:46 PM
For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented
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"A stunningly bad idea"

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:20 PM
In a perfect example of Brownian motion as a template for diplomacy and international relations, the Bush Administration has proposed the sale of $20 billion worth of satellite-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia. That would be the same Saudi Arabia from
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:00 AM
Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic
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This would never happen here

Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:59 PM
Only a week after the car-bombing at the Glasgow airport, BBC Scotland aired a program which brought Muslims and local and national government leaders to the same stage to discuss terrorism, the issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants in Scotland, and
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Tony Blair, reporting for duty

Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:24 PM
Yesterday, after Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister of the UK, he immediately took on his new job as Middle East envoy for the Quartet (the US, the UN, the EU, and Russia). The focus of the Quartet, and Blair's new job description, is to find a
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