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Egypt Gone Bad – An Analysis (3 January 2014)
by Lawrence Davidson, To the Point Analyses Part I – Going from Bad to Worse This past week the confrontation between Egypt’s ruling regime and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood intensified. In an act...
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“Invade and Occupy” — McCain and Graham
by Nathaniel Smith, Politics: A View from West Chester Washington, Feb. 5, 2014 In a bold new proposal to break the deadlocks in Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) proposed that the...
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Isis
excerpt from Doug Muder, “Unwarranted,” The Weekly Sift, 8/25/14 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria beheaded American journalist James Foley – and posted the video on YouTube — after the U.S....
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The War of the Heads
by John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, 9/30/2014 Ain’t no time to wonder why. Whoopee, we’re all gonna die. – Country Joe McDonald I like to call it The War of the Heads. ISIS beheads people...
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Even if we defeat the Islamic State, we’ll still lose the bigger war
by Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington Post, 10/3/14, excerpt: Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American...
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Is The Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
by John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening!, 1/7/15 The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that’s now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province...
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Changing Alliances and the National Interest in the Middle East – An Analysis...
by Lawrence Davidson, To the Point Analyses Part I – The National Interest At least since 2001, a prime goal of the U.S. national interest has been reducing the influence and power of “terrorist”...
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Our Quadrennial Reality TV Show: Sorting Through the Bullshit in America
By John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, 8/27/15 One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. … The realms of advertising and of public relations, and the nowadays...
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The Decline of the Western Ethnic State – An Analysis (24 September 2015)
by Lawrence Davidson, To the Point Analyses Part I – The “Ideal State” If you were transported back to Europe in 1900 and asked educated citizens to describe the ideal political arrangement, what they...
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Israel Moves To Check Its Artists
By John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, A new thought occurred to Rami. It soothed him like a gentle caress. Not all men are born to be heroes. Maybe I wasn’t born to be a hero. But in every man...
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