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Marching To One
This older NYT article discussing a lone gunman in Amman who opened fire on tourists and killed a British citizen – is littered with great quotes on small scale groups conducting terrorist activity: “No force on earth could have prevented … Continue reading
Abu Musab al-Suri
Important piece in the New Yorker discussing the marginalized member of Al Qaeda who actually got it. AQ followed an obsolete model pre-9/11 and should understand its fleeting nature – “Al Qaeda is not an organization, it is not a … Continue reading
Federalism Is Dead In Iraq
WaPo – The speaker of the Iraqi parliament said Tuesday that a controversial plan to partition the country into three autonomous regions is politically dead. More accurately this plan is dead within the political system. But the real power is … Continue reading
Michael Yon On Opium
Michael Yon is talking about the opium trade as well and puts the problem in a nutshell: A reverse symbiosis is at work: Those who benefit most from the opium/heroin trades also benefit most from a destabilized Afghanistan, because a … Continue reading
Opium Wars
NRO’s The Corner calls for the white globalization that should be in place to supersede the black globalization of Afghanistan’s opium trade. So here we have a desperately poor country that has a crop for which there is a proven … Continue reading