What Walt says and we’ve said ad nauseum here before. In his heart Gates knows it’s over, too. May it be quick.
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Fearing Chaos, U.S. Officials Review Stance on Pakistan By DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID ROHDE Published: October 21, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — The scenes of carnage in Pakistan this week conjured what one senior administration official on Friday called “the nightmare scenario” for President Bush’s last 15 months in office: Political meltdown in the [...]
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The U.S. under the Warlord may be a Rogue Power; or perhaps a beefy, almost naked and sweaty mora standing at the Hot Gates; or just an incompetent Outsourcer. For sake of discussion, offer any political science (or snarky, if you prefer) template that comes to mind. Let’s just call it (noun). We’ll skip bomb [...]
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Physicists tell us there exist boundaries, barriers. Events from one side of a barrier can never affect a viewer, and similarly, those that cross that boundary are never observable again. This is why light is said to be incapable of escaping a black hole. Hence, Event Horizon the term. Three simultaneous ‘pop culture’ events of [...]
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