The Other Main Reason Obama Fired McChrystal: He Gave A Negative Report on the Afghan War Just Days Before Obama Fired Him

Details of General McChrystal's grim assessment of his own strategy's current effectiveness emerged as the world's most powerful leaders set the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, a five-year deadline to improve security and governance in his country. Kill the messenger?

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Recovery landing!

If it can be done well tactically, it still might fail strategically

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Afghanistan is Irrelevant

Irrelevant? The author has no clue of what's going on in the world, as maybe we all should learn from and emulate.

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Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 11 Near Pakistani Mosque.

I would not be surprise if the suicide bomber was a woman. The events first began a year ago when women, I believe of the Red mosque, stormed a Chinese massage parlors. The women believed the massage parlor was full of prostitutes.

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Larry Dunbar » Blog Archive » Global Guerrillas: OPEN DECISION MAKING

The war in Iraq is really the war in Vietnam, including lessons learned. What does McCain mean when he says we can win in Iraq? Does this include some Iraqi 2 star standing up the Iraqi military? Or does it mean we "win" in Iraq? Possible lessons:

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It's China Stupid

I've been watching this blogger for sometime now and he goes from pure ignorance to what-the-heck-is-he-talking-about. Now he seems to believe that Iraq has something to do with the rise of China. Of cource if he is right it means that Obama is not going to win this election.

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Bush's Africa visit highlights the bright side of his legacy.

"No doubt President Bush has mobilized an unprecedented amount of resources," Oommen said, "but preventing new infections is where the program hasn't demonstrated impact. That is the pending measure for a true legacy."

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July mosque assault ignited public's distrust of Musharraf government#comments#comments

what this article does not explain is that the reason Musharraf attacked this mosque was because the women of the mosque attacked a Chinese massage parlor. The Chinese made it quite clear that its citizen have to be protected.

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On Man and Woman

I wrote this posting after reflecting on the marriage between two people, one of which I became familiar with through blogging. They are really the man and woman I refer to in the title. I keep "improving" my posting, but I like this version the best so far.

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Blood Oil - Pipeline

Lisa shows just how little the process of getting the oil to market means to the average person who has a pipeline of the stuff running through their lives.

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Last gasp for a dieing Icon: GM

The last gasp effort for the American car maker before its Asian transition. This probably marks the last pretence of an American ethics and logic surviving in America.

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Agreeing to Talk It Over, but Making No Promises, but, hey, at least we are not MG, right?.

While China builds an MG, the other asian (Japan) super-power goes American, American of the EU (GM and France) that is. The American (kerkorkian) of America can't seem to even give it away.

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A Dorm Grows in Harlem. Is it really all about the price of housing?

While the author of this article gives the housing situation as the main reason for dorms, I have to wonder if something else is behind this.

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The MG Dynasty - Give us back our Yugos!

Why not just bring the Yugo back? The Yugo was an Italian car that didn't sell in the USA . We need an Engilsh car that also didn't sell?

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What about regime change in Africa?

From the page:

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A Terror Strike, Choreographed on a Computer. Gamer mentality?

As the virtual world becomes home to the young, disenfranchised, people, could the Gamer mentality become the guide behind the flow of the attack?

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Congo Nears Historic Election, Praying for Peace. Many solders in camps look to the bush for more opputunity for food and survival than what they have there.

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