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Monday, November 29, 2010

Focused on Wikileaks, Missing the Big Picture

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The newspapers and blogs are predictably awash today with reaction to the latest release by Wikileaks , and the sum total of this sound a...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

The True Cost of War in Korea

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The true cost of war goes beyond military expenditures. There’s been a lot of talk about how to deal with North Korea lately, and much o...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Listen To Carter: “Listen to North Korea”

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"Listen to North Korea..." Plenty of talking heads are claiming that North Korea’s reasons for the recent revelations of secre...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Scorched Earth & Fake Negotiations

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Where in the world is  Mullah Mansour? Leveling entire villages to deny them to the enemy sounds like something out of the Middle Ages....
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Majority of Marines Surveyed are Unconcerned by Potential Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

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The unique way that the Washington Post has chosen to spin the preliminary numbers on the as-yet unreleased report on the effects of a pote...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

A Tale of Two Stimulus Packages

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Two years ago, China introduced a 600 billion dollar stimulus package that not only prevented the nation from being sucked into the global r...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Style over Substance: Obama's Indonesian Address

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The view from the cheap seats during President Obama’s speech at the University of Indonesia revealed a US preference for style over substan...
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