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2005-11-10 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2005-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Link don't work. Here it is, if you got's a subscription.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-11-10 00:21|| 2005-11-10 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Back during the Cold War, James Fallows was against just about every major military system we have in place today. John Kerry must have voted against just about every bill funding the acquisition of these weapons systems on the basis of negative articles by Fallows. Fallows is a guy who has no credibility.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-11-10 00:29|| 2005-11-10 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 He was a Carter speechwriter. That says a lot right there. Wrote one of those "we're all going to be eating udon and learning Kanji soon" books in '94 (really bad timing). Very ambitious. Grew up in Redlands when it was still a farm town and went to Harvard.

I always take his articles in the Atlantic with a big grain of salt. Always a lot of good information, but after it all gets processed through his brain, the conclusions always come out skewed or trivialized (as in a trivial solution to a math problem). In fact, I haven't even read the conclusion of his last few articles. More of a tool of the left elites than a leader or ideologist.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-11-10 00:48|| 2005-11-10 00:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Wasn't he one of those annoited scholars that claimed Reagan was going to destroy the world by confronting communism. Just nod and hopefully he wqill go away.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-11-10 08:23|| 2005-11-10 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I stopped reading his articles in the Atlantic because they are so predictable. He's an Ivy League version of the Greek who shall not be named.

Posted by Uleatle Crasing4578 2005-11-10 08:35|| 2005-11-10 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 The man obviously doesn't read the blogs out of Iraq, or he'd shut up already. The Americans are on the Syrian border, along the Euphrates, and in Baghdad because Iraq security forces have taken their place elsewhere. Even in those three remaining locations, all the ops I've read above company level were usually joint US-Iraq. The Iraq security forces are also the ones taking the higher casualties [just like the S.Korean army in the Korean War]. The man is a day late and a dollar short.

Posted by Greregum Phomong6307 2005-11-10 08:59|| 2005-11-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Go here

Run the Thank you video [med for those with 512M memory otherwise small]. Then run The Other Iraq. Makes Mr. Fallows an idiot as he deserves to be labelled.

Posted by Greregum Phomong6307 2005-11-10 09:51|| 2005-11-10 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 What Mr. Fallows misses is a simple concept: success breeds success. He misses this because he was associated with Carter, I think.

Ouch!

Posted by Mike 2005-11-10 12:51|| 2005-11-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does france have no army?

Posted by Hupavique Pheanter1390 2005-11-10 20:44|| 2005-11-10 20:44|| Front Page Top

#10 GP - I almost missed it last night, but Kurdistan had an ad in prime time in the DC area! I woke up from a commercial-enduced slumber to see "Kurdistan - The Other Iraq" and the end of a 30 second spot.

Posted by Bobby 2005-11-10 21:59|| 2005-11-10 21:59|| Front Page Top

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