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Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 10/2010

A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?

| Posted 10.18.2010 | Politics
Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Pentagon, War in Afghanistan, War on Terror, Afghanistan Nine Years, U.S. Military, War in Iraq, Politics News

As commentators point out that the U.S. seems to be morphing from a can-do into a can't-do nation, don't imagine the American spirit is dead. It's just that today our country is triumphant in producing only things that go boom in the night.

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Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers

| Posted 10.26.2010 | World
Read More: Iran Policy, u.s. Foreign Policy, Global Midterms, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Iraq, Predator Drones, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, China, Wikileaks, World News

Fortified by rounds of new polls, the election has become an endless handicapping session. This mania for handicapping remains electoral, but it could be applied to so many things, including the state of the world as seen from Washington.

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