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Red Lines, Syria and Incompetence

April 30th, 2013

By Dan Miller Well thought out red lines can be drawn, successfully. Ill conceived red lines can easily make a bad situation much worse. An article from Stratfor is republished following my initial comments. My initial comments: Great care needs to be taken to avoid drawing ill defined “red lines” which, if crossed, may result […]

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Tags: al-Assad, chemical weapons, extremist, intervention, Muslim, redline, Syria
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Neither Left nor Right

March 20th, 2010

By Tom Carter Kathleen Parker is a clear-minded thinker whose excellent columns are always worth reading. From her column in tomorrow’s Washington Post: Independents as a group outnumber either party…. Yet, given the hyperpartisanship that began under George W. Bush — and has accelerated during President Obama’s first year, thanks in large part to the […]

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Tags: centrist, extremist, independent, left, right
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Misplaced Priorities

December 6th, 2009

By Tom Carter The opening paragraph of Richard Cohen’s recent column in The Washington Post: The truth is that if Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people at Fort Hood, had entered the officers club there with a nice handbag on his arm, perhaps a Gucci tote, he would have been out of the […]

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Tags: don't ask don't tell, extremist, gay marriage, islamist, Muslim
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