joe from Lowell

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Didn't your descriptions of tomorrow include a permanent military presence in Iraq and boots onna ground in Libya?
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The White House is softening the blow to the military sequester. The blow that was supposed to be the biggest…
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...because the immediate aftermath of a huge Republican electoral victory, and the immediate aftermath of a huge Democratic electoral victory,…
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Exactly. Cantor and Boehnor proclaim themselves conquering heroes every time they manage to walk out of the White House with…
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Congressional Democrats are not ducklings who line up behind Obama and follow his script. I think the Congressional Dems have…
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But...there are still folks in the decision chain who have the illusion that the US can create a forward operating…
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What we have is an effort to throw the Alawites out of power removing an ally of Russia and Iran…
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"Enemies" would make sense.  Military action certainly produces enemies: states who will be hostile to us in international affairs, and…
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I have no idea how any of that is supposed to be a response to what I wrote. You seem…
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"how bad a President was George W. Bush?" When Gerarld Ford died during his presidency, the country when through weeks…
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We made the choice to back the uprising in Egypt over "our son of a bitch" Mubarak.  Was that wrong?…
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very time you kill one, you make two hundred more. Then where are they? Why are Iraqis and Afghans so…
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Straight to the identity politics. Way to get to what's really important, Calvin: your ongoing bitterness over what people in…
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this is a poor argument.  it relies on fear. Relying on fear can be a good argument, but it's just…
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Being open-eyed about the consequences of our recent policy is only playing the fear card if you are trying to…
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If someone killed my child I would feel the same way. If someone killed your child, you would want to…
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If military force turns people into terrorists who are going to come kill us in our beds, then where are…
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But that Sunni population has been radicalized both by the repression of the Assad regime and its Iranian sponsors, and…
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Two years ago, Oui, you were citing the lack of American involvement in Syria as an argument against Obama (it…
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it's not a domestic unrest So just so everybody's clear: when the Arab Spring uprisings began simultaneously to spread in…
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