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- Mideast crisis keeps growing
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  To try and better understand the Middle East, it helps to take in a broader perspective of the situation -- to step back and examine the problem with some distance.
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- US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  Since his last combat deployment in Iraq, Jeremy Hall has had a rough time, getting shoved and threatened by his fellow soldiers. The trouble started there when he would not pray in the mess hall.
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- Fatah threatens to kill Hamas leaders
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994. Twelve Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two days of clashes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.
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- Fatal Vision: The Strategy of Chaos and Ethnic Cleansing
  Posted by Billbar from Truth Out
  In an extension of PNAC, Ralph Peters, analyst and ex-military intelligence officer, wrote an Armed Forces Journal article - aptly named "Blood Borders" - surpassing his new compatriots. Where they were content merely to usurp existing regimes, Peters has produced a detailed plan for re-ordering whole regions - ruthlessly chopping up Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, and creating new countries such as Greater Kurdistan, a Vatican-like "Islamic Sacred State" out of Mecca and Medina, and a "Free Baluchistan," tearing the oil-rich province away from Pakistan. He'd also lighten Islamabad of its troublesome Waziristan provinces and give them to Afghanistan.
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- Losing hearts and minds in the Middle East
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  But with today's findings from the Pentagon, it looks like Murtha -- who has close ties to military leaders and cited inside sources in May -- had it exactly right when he said that the troops had "killed innocent civilians in cold blood," and that the military had covered it up. That can only compound the damage to America's global reputation, which stands increasingly against a backdrop of death and destruction in the Middle East.
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- The crazed face of neoconservatism
  Posted by Billbar from Glenn Greenwald
  The contrived chest-beating and transparent desire to feel like a feared warrior, with none of the risk, is manifest, and it is what has shaped our foreign policy for the last five years and, by all appearances, continues to do so.
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- Returning to Old Approach, U.S. Faces Risky Path Ahead
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  It's back to 'cowboy diplomacy.' "The U.S. is alienating even more world opinion, not to mention allies, for the sake of a strategy that is very likely to fail," said Augustus Richard Norton, an expert on Lebanese Shiite politics and a former U.N. peacekeeper in Lebanon.
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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Fatal Vision: The Strategy of Chaos and Ethnic Cleansing
See: http://www.newscloud.com/read/73677
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