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Archive for March 31st, 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Base Meant MORE Tapes

The BBC on the question of the hour. Lots and lots of speculation and inference, such as
It is likely that some US policymakers did initially think it would be useful to have a military foothold in Iraq when they were planning the invasion, says the BBC’s Adam Brookes at the Pentagon.
But he says the difficulties [...]

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Recycled Blogging

From a comment I put on Belgravia Dispatch:
This “insurgency is waning!” meme interests me, since it seems to have grown from nothing in the space of days like shower mold.
I’m a war critic, but nothing bores me more than obsessively detailing every single violent incident in Iraq as if any given one of them meant [...]

Friday, March 31st, 2006

You Too Can Be a Benevolent Hegemon

Step 1. Achieve actual hegemony. One way you’ll know this has happened is that people bother to open and read mail from you.