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The anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan didn’t start gaining military traction until it got its hands on Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which it could use to shoot down Soviet Hind helicopters. It also eventually got serviceable TOW antitank weapons too, and could directly attack Soviet armor. It got those things, of course, from us.
Happily for us, the [...]

One of the reasons commonly given for the impossibility of petitioning Iraq along ethnic/sectarian lines is that it would leave the Sunni section a landlocked, oil-free wasteland, a kind of surlier Jordan. I think “Sunnaq” would have a more arable land than Jordan, and there are plenty of theorists who view oil wealth as something [...]

EggOn! “Firefox extension for cooking the perfect egg.” Via Brett Peters, naturally enough.

Today’s Agitator guest worker item wonders about the possibly changing face of paleolibertarianism.

The latest “liberation strategy appears to be Codename: “Fuck the Sunni.” (See Krauthammer and Ignatius. Both are well wired into official views, and reliable transmitters of same, for current values of “official.”) You can find more rabid versions of the sentiment if you look, and it’s not hard to understand why: the Sunni-specific resistance to [...]