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Fighting Terrorists, Not Soviets

Burns Strider | Posted 01.23.2012

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Burns Strider

Times have changed. We don't play vinyl records on our iPods; we don't use pay phones when we're out and need to make a call. And, we shouldn't be funding last century's battles, especially when it comes at the expense of our troops.

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Road to peace in Afghanistan doesn't run through Islamabad or Langley

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Hughes

Most Afghans cringe when hearing the words "regional settlement" because to them it's nothing more than a euphemism for the meddling of foreign powers...

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Afghanistan: Fight or Turn out the Lights

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Smucker

The Afghans I know are wary that it has taken so many decades and so many ill-conceived strategies, but they still hope to live in a stable country -- free of an occupation and free of Taliban oppression.

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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UC System Hit Hardest When We Need It Most

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrea Chalupa

Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking an ax to one of the most prestigious public education institutions in the world.

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My Friend Ian Browde's Right Brain Reflections

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne R. Davis

With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.

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