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Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 10/2009

War of the Worlds: London, 1898; Kabul, 2009

| Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Read More: Air Force Drones, War-of-the-Worlds, Pakistan Drones, Afghanistan, Af-Pak, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The US may now be represented in the Afghan countryside, mainly by Predators and their even more powerful cousins, Reapers, unmanned aerial vehicles with names straight out of a sci-fi film about implacable aliens.

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Who's Next? Lessons from the Long War and a Blowback World

| Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Read More: Obama Afghanistan, War on Terror, Afghanistan, The Long War, Blowback, Afghanistan War, Politics News

"The Long War" merely exchanged the shock-'n'-awe geographical breadth of the President Bush's chosen moniker ("global") for a shock-'n'-awe time span.

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