Category: Foreign Policy

No solution

“There can be no elegant solution to a poorly defined problem.” … Dear Friends: This past summer I was privileged to participate in a very small retreat with four friends who came from totally different professional backgrounds and walks of life — one a Christian minister who is president of a small liberal arts college, …

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Buying bridges

They’re trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge again  By Robert Fisk Saturday, 23 October 2010 Refusing to buy The Wall Street Journal, I sometimes sneak a look at copies that are left behind by other people.  So it was last month when a friendly couple dumped their paper on the train seat opposite me. And …

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The Family Camel

… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one thing: adultery. In particular, that of three Republican politicians, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford …

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War talk

MEC Analytical Group 21 September 2010 War talk We are grateful to Richard Dalton for bringing to our attention the account below of an exchange of views on 17 September on the prospect of another war between Israel and Lebanon. Jeffrey White of the generally pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy (where the exchange …

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More civilized?

Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?

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Madness

Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

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Brilliant

Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:57 PM Subject: Chas Freeman’s Brilliant Speech in Oslo TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck Miraculously, almost instantly after I circulated the interview with Chas Freeman earlier today, one of my distinguished recipients sent me the text of his speech in Oslo this morning, to which I had referred in …

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