Tags: terrorism
Tags: terrorism
Bureaucratic security (Or: Yup, the terrorists have won.)
Posted Friday February 2, 2007, 3:47 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
So, if you were a terrorist, how would you react to news that a great American city responded to electronic signs depicting a cartoon character by calling in its security forces, guns drawn, and shutting down the city?
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Somalia bombing - more than meets the eye (and meets the media)
Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007, 7:13 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
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What sort of army are we standing up?
Posted Thursday November 16, 2006, 4:44 am, Over one day old at Midtopia
It's stuff like this that makes me question whether Iraq is "winnable" in any sense we'd recognize. In the end, he said, he concluded that the Iraqi general?s real ambition was to destroy the Sunni political movement here? possibly on orders from Baghdad.
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Liberals sitting down
Posted Saturday September 16, 2006, 11:10 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Tony Judt in the London Review of Books excoriates American liberals for acquiescing in Bush's foreign policy.
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9/11 outside the US
Posted Wednesday September 13, 2006, 11:04 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
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9/11 + 5: Fear and pride
Posted Monday September 11, 2006, 11:04 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
We're more than halfway through 9/11/06 and I'm feeling like we've fetishized it. On 9/10/01, if someone had told you that in response to a terrorist attack, a majority of Americans would back preemptive war and torture, would you have believed it? I'm not. But, overall I'm not proud.
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The new normal
Posted Saturday August 12, 2006, 8:31 am, Over one day old at rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog
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More thoughts on yesterday's terror panic
Posted Saturday August 12, 2006, 8:31 am, Over one day old at rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog
The stock market is a better gauge of 'panic' than TV news anchors and the "experts" they interview: While cable TV was trying to make us panic yesterday, a much better barometer of sentiment revealed we weren't lapping up what they were dishing out.
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'Airlines terror plot' disrupted
Posted Thursday August 10, 2006, 8:40 am, Over one day old at rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog
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India closes access to Blogger, Typepad, and Geocities in the name of "fight against terrorism"
Posted Thursday July 27, 2006, 12:44 am, Over one day old at Emergence Marketing
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