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Guest posting by Mike DePinto “It is the nature of war that each side must hide as much as can be hidden. The secrecy of this war goes deeper. More than in any other war I have studied, the true reasons for each side’s actions are hidden from view.” A… more »

Guest posting by Mike DePinto Bush: Al Qaeda attack on West Coast thwarted http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/bush.terror.ap/index.html Can you remember the last time you were really sick? Unless you currently feel that way, it is difficul… more »

LittleGreenFootballs has some great articles on the Mohammed cartoon furor, including one showing the cartoons in print in an Egyptian newspaper in October and another about a so-called "moderate" cleric raving about how Muslims "must rage". The site… more »

George Friedman, big boss at Stratfor, is (in my opinion) one of the world's best analysts of geopolitical events. Here is his take on "The Cartoon Backlash": The Cartoon Backlash: Redefining Alignments By George Friedman There is something rotte… more »

see "Muhammad cartoons 'global crisis'" (BBC News, 2/7/06) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4690338.stm The worldwide furor by Muslims about the harmless cartoons in a Danish newspaper (5 months ago!) gives the civilized world the opportunity to… more »

Several days ago, I wrote a piece called "Abhorrent Muslim behavior is a welcome wake-up call for Europe" which received more comments than any prior blog posting. There are some interesting lessons from readers' responses, to which I'll also add some mo… more »

The past year or so has seen Muslim behavior so repugnant as to get even the ultra-tolerant Dutch and spineless French to see the risk to their societies from the influx of Muslim immigrants. For those of us who find merit in the idea of the Cold War… more »

Thanks to my friend Mike for bringing this piece to my attention. It's old news that we did not (and still do not) have enough translators to keep up with the volume of arabic material coming into our intelligence services. But it was new to me that a pe… more »

David Storobin at GlobalPolitician.com has this insightful article on the Palestinian elections: "Hamas Will Have To Moderate Its Stance Towards Israel" (David Storobin, 1/31/06) http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1583&cid=2&sid=71 more »

An interesting AP story quantifying the damage caused to US reconstruction efforts in Iraq by having to fight the insurgency: "Insurgents Thwarting Iraq Reconstruction" (AP via Yahoo, 2/1/06) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fa… more »