spectator.co.uk - 11/20/2008
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Britain cannot afford a failed Pakistan Elliot Wilson Elliot Wilson says that the near-collapse of the Islamic state should focus minds in this country, which is inextricably linked to Pakistan. Its implosion would stoke extremism here The loss of health visitors is a true scandal Susan Hill ...
americanprogress.org - 11/18/2008
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americanprogress.org —
Advancing a New Strategy for Prosperity and Stability
in Pakistan and the Region By Caroline Wadhams ,...
Brian Katulis , Lawrence J. Korb , Colin Cookman | November 17, 2008 Download the full report (pdf) Pakistan lies at the nexus of one the world's ...
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spectator.co.uk - 11/26/2008
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spectator.co.uk —
On my recent travels in America, I met
two types of Republicans: those possessed by the most...
profound, gut-wrenching fear of the supreme danger that President-elect Obama represented for their country and the world, and those who believed that he was ...
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The Spectator
longwarjournal.org - 11/22/2008
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Elvis has left the cave?
The Corner on National Review Online —
... : When Will Obama Give Up The Bin Laden Ghost Hunt? "Ghost", eh? I used to announce Osama was pushing up Daisycutters on a regular basis a few years back, after which the old has-Bin would spend the next six months doing more fireside chats than FDR. But he seems to have gone silent since his 2004 recitation of Michael Moore talking-points. C'mon, you jihadist deadbeats. How hard can it be to edit him into one of those Dirt Devil commercials dancing with Fred Astaire? ...
“The War is Over and We Won”
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... home safely from the war victorious then and victorious now.
All of our troops, living and dead deserve the credit for this wonderful and very hard work.
The Anchoress wasn’t afraid to say it: President Bush was right.
I will say it again. President Bush was right. He was steadfast. He didn’t quit. He listened to the Generals. He listened to John McCain. He may have even gotten Osama. Some of us suspected it back in 2002.
President Bush honors and continues to honor our troops and our ...
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Taliban strike tribal leaders in Bajaur, six killed
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longwarjournal.org 12/16/2008 — One week after the United Nations Security Council declared the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity a front group for the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, the Pakistani government has taken minimal steps to clamp down on the organization.
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Georgia race key in Senate power struggle —
Reuters: Politics 11/20/2008
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia has become a last stand for the Republican Party to block Democrats from gaining a majority big enough to push their legislation through the chamber almost at will.
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