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Entries by Eric Margolis from 06/2011

General Mladic Faces Justice, However Late

| Posted 06.06.2011 | World
Read More: Bosnia, Albania, Balkans, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, World News

Justice delayed is justice denied. Accused Serb war criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic killed at least five times more civilians than Osama bin Laden was accused of doing, yet at times no one seemed in any hurry to find the "Butcher of Sarajevo."

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Will China Rule the Waves

| Posted 06.13.2011 | World
Read More: Indian Ocean, Indian-Navy-Movement-Towards-Pak, China Aircraft Carrier, China Oil Supply Lines, Port of Gwadar, Burma, World News

Judging from all the alarms coming from Washington's national security establishment, revelation of China's first aircraft carrier poses a major threat to world peace and stability. It does not, but the timing is noteworthy.

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Turkey: The First Mideast Revolution

| Posted 06.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Kurds, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul, "Zero Problems" Policy, AK Party, Politics News

Erdogan's third electoral victory fell short of allowing him to rewrite the obsolete constitution without consensus from other parties, but his victory means years more democratic and economic progress for the vitally important nation of Turkey.

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Afghanistan -- A Bridget Too Far

| Posted 06.27.2011 | World
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Pimco, Taliban, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, World News

War is waged to achieve political objectives, not to kill enemies. Politically, the US has achieved nothing in Afghanistan after ten years of desultory war and destruction.

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