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Tag Archives: Iraq
Paris Bombings, Public Response, and the New Tribalism
Evil is very real and as we know from the Paris mayhem, universal. ISIS, of course, is its mirror image. This week, Kurdish Peshmerga troops, retaking the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq, discovered two mass graves just outside the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections
Tagged Iraq, Kurds, media, Muslim, Paris bombings, Sinjar, Yadzidis
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American Sniper: Anatomy of a Mauling
There’s been heavy flak, to say the least, over Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster film, American Sniper. It started with film director Michael Moore’s take on snipers as “cowards” who shoot people in the back.” Others soon piled on, like Seth Rogen, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Reflections
Tagged American Sniper, Bill Maher, Bradley Cooper, Chris Kyle, Clint Eastwood, film, Iraq, Louis Zamperini, Michael Moore, movies, Sadr City, snipers
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Chemical Attack in Syria: Obama Looks the Other Way
The videos from Syria are horrific and unprecedented, with row upon row of corpses, many of them children, in what now seems to indicate some kind of chemical agent, perhaps nerve gas, judging by the symptoms, also captured on camera, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Chemical weapon, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Syria, United States
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