Monthly Archives: July 2016

From the BBC. I find the combination of this headline and photograph really funny.

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Zarqawi as rationale for invasion of Iraq

The world’s introduction to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came on February 5, 2003, in the sixty-first minute of Colin Powell’s speech to the UN Security Council making the case for war against Iraq. It began with a declarative sentence that, like … Continue reading

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Exporting Wilsonian Democracy

There was even a somewhat rarefied revival of our primitive Yankee boastfulness, the reversion of senility to that republican childhood when we expected the whole world to copy our republican institutions. We amusingly ignored the fact that it was just … Continue reading

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