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Well, That Was Interesting

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In me me me , sheer idiocy
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On August 13, 2007
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So. I haven't been posting much on the weekends because N and I have been escaping the city as much as possible, and leaving our wi-fi equipped laptops behind. Usually the weekends are pretty quiet, and are spent with friends or family who live outside the...

The Logic of Afghanistan

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In afghanistan
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On August 12, 2007
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IB writes:I was very pleased to see a handful of commentators politely question Hilzoy's nostalgia for the Afghan War that could have been (but that "unserious" people understood even at the time would be a clusterfuck).To my shame, I was more or less neutral on the...

Heartbreaking Ineptitude

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In General
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On August 12, 2007
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The foreign policy stylings of George W. Bush:But that skepticism had never taken hold in Washington. Since the 2001 war, American intelligence agencies had reported that the Taliban were so decimated they no longer posed a threat, according to two senior intelligence officials who reviewed the...
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