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Robert Scheer: A War of AbsurdityThere is no indication that any of the contending forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are interested in bringing al-Qaida back. On the contrary, all the available evidence indicates that the Arab fighters are unwelcome and that it is their isolation from their former patrons that has le... |
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Robert Scheer: Exorcising America's Diplomatic DemonsThis week the Chinese Communists celebrate their 60th year in power, an event that the make-war-not-peace crowd, now bloviating over Iran and Afghanistan, might benefit from contemplating. They might also recall a time when the mere suggestion of peaceful coexistence with the Red Menace of China ... |
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'What's the Worst That Could Happen?' A Book Review of a Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate'A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate' Do you know everything there is about climate science and the debate about global warming? Stop reading this. Everybody else: Think you know all the ins and outs of climate change? Still plowing through all the models and possible scenarios ... |
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Robert Scheer: Saving the Obama RevolutionThe Obama revolution, and there was the hope of one, might still succeed. But only if Barack Obama follows the model of the incredibly successful Reagan revolution and heeds the political base that made his presidency possible. Love him or not, Ronald Reagan had at least one outstanding politi... |
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Robert Scheer: Obama's Presidency Isn't Too Big to FailA president has only so much capital to expend, both in tax dollars and public tolerance, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn. He has tried to have it all on three fronts, and his administration is in serious danger of going bankrupt. He has blundered into a deepening quagmire in Afghanista... |
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Robert Scheer: A 9/11 Reality CheckWhat if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millions of innocent civilians would we have killed in retaliation? Would we still be a free society, or would Dick Cheney have attained the power of a d... |
