Month: September 2006

Fooling Us, Fooling Ourselves

From a memo the British ambassador to the United States prepared for the Prime Minister. I draw two main conclusions. First that the State Department does not alone determine, nor even always accurately reflects, the...

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Iraq: More Graft and Incompetence

Front and center in the Washington Post: A $75 million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partially...

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Thursday News Bucket

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it… — Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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