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Monthly Archives: July 2006
The Clash
The murderous rift between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world is indicative of the psychology of our enemy. Sunni consider Shia to be worse than Jews, let alone pigs. Both sides consider the other to be an unforgivable heresy … Continue reading
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Increased violence in Iraq, but against whom?
Watching the bomb-go-boom-many-people-die reporting from Iraq on network news, an interesting fact appears in the fog. The increased violence is primarily Shia militia and death squads killing Sunni. You don’t hear much about Al Qaeda anymore since the Baathists got … Continue reading
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Who’s your favorite Republican presidential candidate?
Here is a conversation on this topic between my brother Jeff, me, and my cousin Andy: Jeff: So who’s your candidate that has a chance of winning the nomination and the presidency? The pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun control, adulterous New Yorker? … Continue reading
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Erring on the side of paranoia
If you are in charge of the Nation’s defense, you will always tend to overestimate an enemy threat, because the price of overestimating the threat is so much lower than the price of underestimating it. You have to err on … Continue reading
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A Neo-Luddite Manifesto
Posted by Jeff I have a clear policy: I never blame myself; I always blame the geeks. The most annoying are the ones who come to help you out of some fix that you have gotten yourself into (I mean, … Continue reading
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New York Times – the Al Qaeda Counter-Intelligence Bureau
A majority (70%) of Americans support the top secret Treasury Department program tracking financial transactions in search of terrorist funding, that was revealed, and thus sabotaged, by the New York Times. So, when CNN produced a “discussion” of this issue, … Continue reading
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