thenation.com - 5/20/2009
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In my view, there are many good reasons to support the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. But Afghanistan is not Iraq and public opinion still largely supports Obama's escalation. (This is partly, I think, because there's so little media coverage of what's actually taking place in the ...
online.wsj.com - 5/21/2009
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online.wsj.com —
KARL ROVE Barack Obama inherited a set of
national-security policies that he rejected during the campaign but...
now embraces as president. This is a stunning and welcome about-face. For example, President Obama kept George W. Bush's military tribunals ...
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Flip-Flops and Governance
blogs.abcnews.com - 5/19/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
On May 4, Al Jazeera English ran a
report suggesting that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan may have...
been violating anti-proselytizing rules by distributing Dari-and Pashto-language New Testament Bibles. Central Command General Order No. 1 specifically ...
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Bibles Destroyed in Afghanistan... By U.S. Military
blogs.cbn.com - 5/19/2009
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blogs.cbn.com —
This story hasn't received much attention but it
caught the eye of The Brody File. The Pentagon...
has confiscated a stack of Bibles sent to an Evangelical soldier in Afghanistan. The Bibles were printed in the local Pashto and Dari languages. Military ...
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Pentagon Confiscates Bibles
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Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... Can someone 'splain what the hell we're doing in Afghanistan?
End the war.
MC Steele talks, RNC members snooze.
But...but...everyone's "pro-life" now.
Good news on The Lion.
Obama's gonna take your guns away!
Can something be done about Harry Reid?
Kaleefornya: still ungovernable.
A pretty lonely religion.
I'll take a grande mocha and some union busting.
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Upper Left —
... ...Peter Rothberg offers a pointer to United for Peace and Justice's National Media Day of Action, scheduled for tomorrow. UPJ's got an excellent ...
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