"It is well that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it!" – Gen. Robert E. Lee In the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon," Capt. James T. Kirk and crew beam down to planet Eminiar VII against the wishes of its government to find what appears to be a peaceful, …
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Mike Tennant says no more double standards
Interview recorded Feb. 27, 2007. Listen to the interview. Although we’ve talked about this issue, your article in The New Yorker, “The Redirection,” a couple of times, Mr. Hersh, would you give us a thumbnail sketch of your story? Hersh: Yeah, basically, it’s a story saying that we’ve changed our policy in a very dramatic …
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Sunni Jihadists?”
When Israeli Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz said, “Nothing is safe [in Lebanon],” he was only stating the obvious. “[It’s] as simple as that,” he said. Lebanese ports, air and sea, power plants, television stations, bridges, roads, neighborhoods, and homes, even fleeing families, women and children, all came under Israeli attack. No one …
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Goyette’s Second Law” 
