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I guess everyone is bored with this topic.

I wish the reason we have topics like this would go away. Maybe like you, though, I feel nearly compelled to slap stuff like this up here -- and I subject some of my Marine and ex-Marine relations to it as well (the likely Bush voters in the family). In this case I held back from responding as I thought I should wait for someone -- some likely Bush voter -- to read it and offer some sort of a counterpoint. Of course, that might be hard. Or they could post "Whoa, I had no idea! I'm changing to Kerry!". Or they could post "I don't like to read pieces that long by closet comsymp Air Force shemales!!" I don't know.

I had previously turned up some of her Military Week pieces in Google News and I have to say I am surprised at how little mainstream media attention they get. Maybe I am not watching enough mainstream media.

Like James Bamford, she does not shy away from criticism of Israeli influence on American foreign policy and I think that, in some media circles, that sort of criticism is near-taboo due to (PC?) sensitivity to charges of antisemitism. I think her and Bamford's analyses are compelling, though.

Having just 10 minutes ago returned from the melancholy journey to cast my ballot, I was particularly reminded of her National Security Conversations We Won't Have Before November 2nd column.

Oh, and more good news from the comsymps at the BBC and Johns Hopkins. Of course "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here!" and that's all that counts, right?
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.