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http://sustainablog.blogspot.com [sustainablog] Thomas Friedman is one of those political columnists that I'm never quite sure how to take -- if I remember right, he supported the war in Iraq, but can also take centrist, even liberal, positions at other times. That's why I've kept a skeptical eye on the "geo-green" concept he's touted of late.

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http://junkheapofhistory.blogspot.com [The Junkheap of History] In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths: Retrofitted with five large wire pens and a half dozen plywood isolation cells, the building became the Bagram Collection Point, a clearinghouse for prisoners captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The B.C.P., as soldiers called it, typically held between 40 and 80 detainees while they were interrogated and screened for possible shipment to the Pentagon's longer-term detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

http://thecommons4change.blogspot.com [The Commons] In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths: Wood, were redeployed to Iraq and in July 2003 took charge of interrogations at the Abu Ghraib prison. According to a high-level Army inquiry last year, Captain Wood applied techniques there that were "remarkably similar" to those used at Bagram.

http://www.rogerlsimon.com [Rogerlsimon.com] Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter: sanctions, or that Russia's opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq was financially motivated, would undermine Moscow's credibility with Washington at a time when the U.S. is already wary of President Vladimir Putin and what many consider his backsliding on democracy and economic change. The Kremlin's critics in the U.S. say the scandal proves Russia is an unreliable partner in international affairs and has worked actively to undermine U.S. interests.

http://hammeroftruth.com [Hammeroftruth.com] Hammer of Truth - Libertarian Blog: Now, I’m avidly against the late Vietnam war and the current Iraq war (yet, I fully agree with using military force to retaliate and hunt down Osama in Afghanistan and wherever he is), but I think once you start throwing around blanket statements about the morality of our military troops, you are treading into dangerous territory. Back during Vietnam, one of the greatest blunders of the anti-war movement was to greet returning troops with spit and name-calling.

Thomaspmbarnett.com[Thomaspmbarnett.com] Thomas PM Barnett :: Weblog: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 ...: So Barnett thinks that the 1990s revealed neither chaos nor uncertainty, but the defining conflict of our age, a historical struggle that screams out for a new U.S. vision of a future world worth creating. Strategic vision in the United States needs to focus on “growing the number of states that recognize a stable set of rules regarding war and peace”—that is, the conditions under which it is reasonable to wage war against identifiable enemies of “our collective order.” Growing this community is a simple matter of identifying the difference between good and bad regimes and encouraging the bad ones to change their ways.

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