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Looking at the world through imperialist glasses transforms a complex, chaotic and exotic planet into a well-ordered simple and uniform place where the sun shines and the birds sing and global harmony prevails. The imperialist mindset is elegantly simplistic, as most religions are, to provide mass appeal for the “simple-minded” laity required to carry out [...]
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Well, frumps, there’s nothing I enjoy more than a good mystery, once in a while, and this week there’s a genuine enigma afoot that just happens to segue with one of my favorite beefs – how tax dollars are spent.
Andrew Higgins, writing for the Washington Post, broke a story last night about the strange “blizzard [...]
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Well, frumps, so much for our Imperial Resolve to “do no harm” in our efforts to make the poppy fields of Marjah safe for democracy. On Sunday, a flock of Blackhawks took out a “suspicious-looking” convoy of minibuses carrying 42 Afghan souls to some now insignificant weekend destination. Of the 42 who set out that [...]
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Well, frumps, if Gen. Stanley McChrystal is to be believed, the tide is turning in Afghanistan and victory (whatever that means) can’t be far behind. Now this is, indeed, a very encouraging assessment because Gen. McChrystal has only been in charge of the Afghan operation for about seven months, during which time he has only [...]
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Well, frumps, in order to start a new year with any hope of something better than 2009, our recently departed annus horribilis, I must vent about the war that has become colloquially known as Afpak (sounds like the local meat-packing plant, doesn’t it? Not so far off . . . ). Afpak, my friends, is [...]
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