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Archive for November 30th, 2006

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The Road to Nerfed ‘Em

Mark Danner’s new essay review in the New York Review of Books is close to the most comprehensive account of how the Bush Administration made a iatrogenic disaster in Iraq that I have read. It overlooks the extent to which the United States early became hostage to the wishes of Iraq’s local and sudden-blooming Shiite [...]

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The ReconKEISTER

James Joyner discovers the anti-immigrant movement pulling numbers out its butt.

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

They Write Letters

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bcc’s the world on a missive nominally to the American people. Since the plain fact is that Ahmadinejad is mistaken when he declares that, just like Iranians, Americans “are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of the Palestinian people” and since the God talk in this letter is marginally less people-of-the-book generic [...]

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

But For Us It’s Just Like Before

Chris Allbritton mentions that Lebanon could go completely to shit be Friday afternoon.
And there’s a no-prize for getting the title reference of this blog entry.