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a victory for toilets and holograms: Narendra Modi is India’s new Prime Minister
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Aziz Poonawalla
As predicted by everyone, Narendra Modi has won the election and is India’s new Prime Minister. Some essential background on the Indian elections here, by John Oliver on HBO (because American news media FAIL): Modi won with substantial support of Muslims in India, despite his role in the Gujrat riots. I hope that Modi takes…
the silver lining to the Iraq War
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Aziz Poonawalla
Here’s an article by a defense industry analyst that goes out of its way to avoid mentioning who and what political party was responsible for the Iraq War while assidously making the case that said war has paralyzed American military decisionmaking in the long run: Without Iraq’s enormous price, the once unassailable U.S. military strength…
Obama still wants to close Guantanamo #Gitmo
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Aziz Poonawalla
From today’s press conference: 8:15 AM PT: Bill Plante of CBS asks about the Guantanamo hunger strike. Obama says he still wants to close it. “It’s not necessary to keep America safe. It’s expensive. It’s inefficient. It hurts us” with allies and the global community. “Now, Congress has determined that they won’t let us close…
Iraq War retrospective: not convinced by Colin Powell at the UN #iraq10
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Aziz Poonawalla
On Feb 5th 2003, Colin Powell gave a speech at the United Nations that supposedly laid out the case for WMD in Iraq and the argument for invasion. After the war began and WMDs were not found, this speech destroyed his credibility and Powell’s political aspirations were rightly dead afterwards. Here is the skeptical post…
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