[Note: This post has been sitting around in draft form for awhile, but I shelved it because I was starting to be convinced otherwise. But, as they say, new s*** has come to light.]
Dana Goldstein has an interesting pair of posts on
Progressive Hillary Clinton and
Women’s Leadership that consider her candidacy from a perspective [...]

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At Lawyers, Guns, and Money Robert Farley talks about a difference in strategy
fighting the Taliban and the drug crop in Afghanistan. The Europeans are focusing on development projects, hoping economic development will encourage people to pursue other economic strategies, while we’re focused on crop destruction.
The latter strategy might seem more straightforward, but crop-destruction [...]

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Bush yesterday:

This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. [
Bush Defends Assertions of Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship ]

Protestations to the contrary, this administration has certainly tried to blur the issue as much as possible—to the [...]

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There’s something that really bugs me about the “Chalabi: Spy for Iran” story. If Chalabi is what they’re saying he is, he would seem to be a pretty high-profile target. Someone we’d want to have in custody. You know, to try to ascertain the damage done and find out more about Iranian intelligence operations.
I guess [...]

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I’ve been looking through older material, and I hit this post written in October of 2002:
We’re Building Empire.

Saddam’s power is the only thing holding the Iraqi state together. When Saddam dies, there will be no Iraq. The Iraqis will be “free” to kill each other. How does anyone bring democracy to that? You can [...]

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