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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Pulling Strings in Foreign Relations</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/pulling-strings-in-foreign-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems to be an awful lot of &#8220;testing&#8221; going on. Mutiny in Georgia!!! Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas in Iraq with helicopters Pakistan is melting down!!! Chinese Ships Come Dangerously Close to American Vessel]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stock and Awe in Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/10/stock-and-awe-in-baghdad/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/10/stock-and-awe-in-baghdad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance's Page]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Markets have spoken, the best place to invest in the world is&#8230;Iraq! Now it’s stock and awe in Baghdad! As the Dow plummeted nearly 700 points yesterday to fall well below the 9,000 mark, the Iraqi stock exchange &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/10/stock-and-awe-in-baghdad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Fate of Criticism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=5535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tattered Hope&#8221; by Nathan Rupert Jason at postpolitical and I often get into testy email arguments about Barack Obama&#8217;s alleged &#8220;arrogance.&#8221; He is quite Greek in the sense that he thinks hubris is the fatal flaw at the heart of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deaths in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/deaths-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/deaths-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[InstapunditAbout the same number of gun deaths in Chicago, over the summer, as US deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder why the media focuses on US deaths abroad but ignores the violence to US citizens here at home.]]></description>
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		<title>Declinism as Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imperialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Captives of Years</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/the-captives-of-years/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/the-captives-of-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=5052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the United States officially returned all security duties for Anbar province to Iraqi police and military. The collapse of the Sunni insurgency there now appears to be almost total, with attacks having declined 90% from only two years &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/the-captives-of-years/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Graphics Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I&#8217;d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US Out by 2011?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/21/us-out-by-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/21/us-out-by-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the news that the u.S. has possibly negotiated a full withdrawal from Iraq by 2011, here is Kids in the Hall&#8217;s Buddy Cole on his romance in Baghdad.]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Army Upgrades</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/iraqi-army-upgrades/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/iraqi-army-upgrades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq is buying 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks, along with wide range of other conventional hardware, as it prepares to shift its focus from internal security to defending the borders in a very hostile neighborhood. Iran, in case you&#8217;re wondering, can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/iraqi-army-upgrades/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Sides on South Ossetia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an ambiguous initial reaction, the State Department appears to have realized that despite whatever Russia contends, it is physically impossible for Georgia to invade its own country: &#8220;We call on Russia to cease attacks on Georgia by aircraft and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Shift to the Center</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/the-shift-to-the-center/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/the-shift-to-the-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a sociopolitical threshold of some kind has been passed in Iraq, as the full range of separatist groups are now seeking power and legitimacy through representation in the central government, rather than in armed conflict.]]></description>
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		<title>Swordsmen into Social Workers</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Muqtada al-Sadr is getting out of the mayhem &#38; militia business in favor of social services. Not strictly as a Hamas style prop for publicity and popularity either. Iraq may well become that strangest of political landscapes where &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shorter Deployment Duration Announced</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/shorter-deployment-duration-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/shorter-deployment-duration-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among other great news from Iraq. Victory is a good exit strategy.]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Hagel wants to change the subject-Updated</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/27/chuck-hagel-wants-to-change-the-subject/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/27/chuck-hagel-wants-to-change-the-subject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Huffington Post, where this kind of BS is applauded: &#8220;Quit talking about, &#8216;Did the surge work or not work,&#8217; or, &#8216;Did you vote for this or support this,&#8217;&#8221; Hagel said Thursday on a conference call with reporters. &#8220;Get &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/27/chuck-hagel-wants-to-change-the-subject/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Galula, to Anbar and the Surge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/from-galula-to-anbar-and-the-surge/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/from-galula-to-anbar-and-the-surge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing discussion of who has done a better job of describing the time line around the surge, I certainly recommend McQ&#8217;s discussion. The Minuteman however has a couple of key points to make on this issue as well: &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/from-galula-to-anbar-and-the-surge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and Maliki&#8217;s Timetable</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/09/politics-and-malikis-timeline/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/09/politics-and-malikis-timeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the same thing as a Harry Reid Timetable (HT: McQ): A deadline should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Iraq, and the pullout could be done by 2011, an Iraqi government spokesman said Tuesday. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/09/politics-and-malikis-timeline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Boumediene &#8212; The Great Sandbagging</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/13/boumediene-the-great-sandbagging/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/13/boumediene-the-great-sandbagging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Welcome QandO readers. Please look around after you&#8217;ve finished with this post, but McQ says you have to go back over to QandO when you&#8217;re done &#8230; but I won&#8217;t tell if you won&#8217;t. _____________________________________________________________ The recent Supreme Court &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/13/boumediene-the-great-sandbagging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From the Horse&#8217;s Mouth, So To Speak</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/04/from-the-horses-mouth-so-to-speak/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/04/from-the-horses-mouth-so-to-speak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight heard testimony from Sheikh Khalaf al-Ulayyan of the Sunni Accordance Front and Nadim al-Jaberi of the Shiite (and anti-Moqtada, anti-Maliki) Fadhila Party. Both oppose a long-term presence &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/04/from-the-horses-mouth-so-to-speak/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Because Aren&#8217;t All Insurgencies the Same?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal is a frustrating columnist. In April he made the head scratching argument that Khost province in Afghanistan, which has, along with the rest of RC-East, experienced a 36% jump in insurgent attacks over &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/because-arent-all-insurgencies-the-same/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fallon and Petraeus sitting in a tree&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/fallon-and-petraeus-sitting-in-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/fallon-and-petraeus-sitting-in-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was catching up a bit on my reading, and thanks to McQ found this interview with Admiral Fallon. As McQ points out, the conversation did not go the way Kyra Phillips was trying to steer it. Given our own &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/fallon-and-petraeus-sitting-in-a-tree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Punish Me Again Mistress</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/punish-me-again-mistress/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/punish-me-again-mistress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Marsh thinks that Obama would have supported war in Iraq on Hillary&#8217;s grounds in 2002, even though he&#8217;s on record at the time opposing it. A matter well dealt with by Oliver Willis&#8230;even if thereby he had to confess &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/punish-me-again-mistress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Initial Command</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/the-initial-command/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 16:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Department of Defense) The Obama campaign has categorically rejected John McCain&#8217;s proposal for a joint trip to Iraq, calling it a &#8220;publicity stunt.&#8221; Publicity stunt it most certainly is, but why is it automatically assumed that the publicity would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/the-initial-command/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of Funding Thugs</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/the-danger-of-funding-thugs/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/the-danger-of-funding-thugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 23:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure it&#8217;s nice when you pay them to pretty please stop attacking us, but what of the consequences? This is the dark side of the CLC/Sons of Iraq/Awakening bandwagon we jumped on, and it&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve been mocked repeatedly for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/the-danger-of-funding-thugs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Iraqi Jokes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/13/two-iraqi-jokes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both via Major John at Miserable Donuts, a milblog. First, a joke as told by an Iraqi Army captain: President Jalal Talibani summoned the leaders of the Iraqi parliament to his office for a meeting. In the middle of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/13/two-iraqi-jokes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Wars = Great Strategies!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/08/failed-wars-great-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes on the war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tyranny]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ll never understand about the military is how it looks to failed wars to prove the truthiness of its current strategy. What baffles me more is how earnest scholars, like Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/08/failed-wars-great-strategies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From the Horses&#8217; Mouths (so to speak)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/from-the-horses-mouths-so-to-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes on the war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embassy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WTF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever could this guy be going on about? &#8220;Saddam had his big castles; they symbolized his power and were places to be feared, and now we have the castle of the power that toppled him,&#8221; says Abdul Jabbar Ahmed, a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/from-the-horses-mouths-so-to-speak/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oxblog in Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/oxblog-in-baghdad/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/oxblog-in-baghdad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Adesnik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is cool, David Adesnik of Oxblog has been in Iraq working for the coalition on the sly. I find that encouraging and I can&#8217;t wait to hear what his impressions are. I am also encouraged that he is now &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/oxblog-in-baghdad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Signs of Progress</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/welcoming-signs-of-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/welcoming-signs-of-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keith's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes on the war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Security improvements bringing people back to their homes in South Baghdad&#8230; With security improving, local economies flourishing and community reconstruction underway, Iraqis who once fled their South Baghdad homes in fear are now returning to the villages they deserted. This &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/welcoming-signs-of-progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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