Archive for the ‘middle-east’ Category
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Pakistani Crack-Pots
Posted on December 17, 2014
When it was announced that the Pakistani Taliban slaughtered a bunch of school kids earlier this week, my mind immediately turned to Adam Lanza. Lanza was the deranged teenager who...
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Moussaoui Might Be Crazy. And He Might Be Right.
Posted on November 17, 2014
When is it easy to believe a paranoid schizophrenic in the courtroom? When it is Zacarias Moussaoui and he tells you that a Saudi prince bankrolled the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui,...
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Let’s Wander Into a Bar Brawl in the Middle East
Posted on September 15, 2014
Some hawks think it is smart policy and politics to push President Obama into putting boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq to battle the ISIS threat. It’s neither....
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Who Are These Guys?
Posted on September 1, 2014
Who are these guys? That’s the famous line from the classic movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It could also be asked of the Sunni insurgency that has overtaken...
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No Justice, No Peace: In the Middle East
Posted on August 20, 2014
I didn’t know James Foley, but I know well the University that shaped him. He studied History and played Rugby and thought about being a teacher in the inner city...
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