McCain Panders on Iraq

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 8:03 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 08:03

The Baby Blue Cherub has the link:

In a speech he's about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.

It's January, 2013. By then, he says, American combat involvement will be over and most U.S. troops back home.

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 10:16 AM PDT

2008/04/22 · 10:16

...Is good for Iraq. Some sensible advice:

"We don't think that under the present circumstances given the current political crisis in Zimbabwe that now is the time for anyone to be increasing the number of weapons and armaments available in that country." (source:AFP)

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 10:54 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 10:54

Zimbabwe held elections this weekend and the pressure is mounting on Mugabe's regime to post results. So far ZANU PF and MDC are tied in official parlimentary election results. No numbers have been released yet for the Presidential election, although most people are convinced that MDC has won a huge victory over Mugabe's party. As I've started watching this, I've tried to find some good blogs to read for commentary from people inside of (or close to) Zimbabwe. Links to those blogs are given below the fold.

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Thursday December 06, 2007 · 10:42 AM PST

2007/12/06 · 10:42

I posted this as a comment to Kagro X's thread on Romney's speech. I'm posting it as a diary at the suggestion of one commenter. The gist of the matter is that Romney makes a couple of references to political views held by various actors in the Book of Mormon. However, those views don't directly translate to our modern political context. Full post below the fold.

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Tuesday November 13, 2007 · 2:57 PM PST

2007/11/13 · 14:57

It's being reported today that Turkey attacked an abandoned village in northern Iraq. Although the village was empty, it points to much deeper and more troubling issue. Why has the U.S. allied with both the Turks and the Kurds while avoiding the obvious issues that divide them? And, why does the U.S. continue to arm both groups, giving both military assistance and training? More below the fold.

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Wednesday October 31, 2007 · 12:59 PM PDT

2007/10/31 · 12:59

America is slipping dangerously close to engaging in "Apartheid" politics -- the separation of "us" and "them", obstensibly for the benefit of "them" (and "us", but that's generally framed as the secondary benefit). I highly recommend the book "Move Your Shadow" by Joseph Lelyveld if you want to understand the Apartheid mindset. I discuss the reasons for this and how it's manifest below the fold.

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 10:52 AM PDT

2007/07/03 · 10:52

This isn't normally a topic I'd diary about, but the commutation by President Bush of Lewis Libby's sentence is beyond the pale. It is obvious from the various Senate and House investigations that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney are pushing well beyond the legal limits of their powers. And thus I call for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney, which would make Nancy Pelosi the next President. And, I think there's reason for Republicans to support it. More below the fold...

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 11:49 AM PDT

2007/07/02 · 11:49

In part 2 I summarized and discussed a few of the comments left in my first diary on this subject. For those who haven't been following along, we've been discussing how the U.S. position in the world is changing. More specifically, about the imminent decline in U.S. power and influence which may already be underway, what it means and how to deal with it. I will discuss the comments to pt. 2 in another post (I want a few more days to digest them). Today I'd like to discuss the role of personality in power -- does the personality of an administration really affect U.S. power? More below.

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Wednesday June 27, 2007 · 5:41 PM PDT

2007/06/27 · 17:41

Many folks provided excellent comments to my first post (here: http://www.dailykos.com/... ). I'd like to discuss those comments and continue to move the conversation forward. The main issue is how does the U.S. deal with it's declining power in the world? Although still the most powerful nation in many ways, the future portends a rise in Asian influence and power that will dwarf that of the U.S. More below.

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Friday June 22, 2007 · 4:52 PM PDT

2007/06/22 · 16:52

I've been thinking about this issue over the last few months. It's beginning to become clear to me that the U.S. can't maintain its "superpower" status forever. As I see it, demographics and economic data bear this out. I believe that, to a large degree, a populous Asia translates into a prosperous Asia at some point in the near future, thus undercutting one leg propping up our "superpower" status. Where, therefore, do we stand? Can or should the U.S. be concerned about losing its status in the world? More beyond the jump.

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 1:39 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 13:39

Update: I just read this analysis of a speech by Army Col. Gary Cheek, who seems to think that "GWOT" promotes erroneous ideas about terrorism and how the U.S. should fight it...

The New Yorker has an excellent article profiling one FBI witness against Al-Qaeda who has cooperated with the government for many years -- Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl. From the article:

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Thursday August 17, 2006 · 10:58 AM PDT

2006/08/17 · 10:58

The Register has an article out today questioning whether or not those plotting to destroy aircraft by mixing precoursors onboard (thus making so-called "binary" explosives) had done their chemistry. As it turns out, they hadn't:

'It should be small comfort that the security establishments of the UK and the USA - and the "terrorism experts" who inform them and wheedle billions of dollars out of them for bomb puffers and face recognition gizmos and remote gait analyzers and similar hi-tech phrenology gear - have bought the Hollywood binary liquid explosive myth, and have even acted upon it.'

'We've given extraordinary credit to a collection of jihadist wannabes with an exceptionally poor grasp of the mechanics of attacking a plane, whose only hope of success would have been a pure accident. They would have had to succeed in spite of their own ignorance and incompetence, and in spite of being under police surveillance for a year.' (source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/...) Read More

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