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I was going to write a big long post about Matt Taibbi’s latest attempt to pin the “sellout” tail on the President’s donkey and maybe I still will. But really, the bottom line is much shorter and largely ignored: This is a war between Wall Street and the rest of us.
Take your eyes off Geithner, [...]
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The minefield for President Obama isn’t laid in Afghanistan, nor are his enemies laying in wait for him on the right. They’re on the left, the right, in front, and behind him. As I wrote before, there are no easy or formulaic answers to the question of how to approach Afghanistan.
This is why I [...]
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I’ve been reading and brain-picking for months on this topic, trying to understand it and trying to come up with how I feel about the possibility of making a longer-term commitment to a country that is known to consume empires. It’s more than theoretical to me — a close relative spent a good chunk of [...]
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