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Via PiePalace.ca: Sorry to say that we've just become aware that, last November, a
career Canadian diplomat blew the whistle on Afghani torture of prisoners turned over by Canadian troops.
a senior Canadian diplomat, Richard Colvin, who told a parliamentary committee last week that “the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured” during [...]
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The BBC reports that NATO is calling the Taliban attack on a prison in Kandahar - releasing 900 inmates, under half of them members of the Taliban - is an "isolated incident." One supposes that this probably is better for Taliban morale, and from their point of view, might be thought a "major tactical breakthrough" [...]
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The Post World War II G.I. Bill paid 100% of tuition for veterans. Plus other benefits. Now it maxes out at $800 month. As U.S. Senators Jim Webb and Chuck argued in "A Post-Iraq G.I. Bill,"The New York Times, November 8, 2007: "[i]t is hardly enough to allow a veteran to attend man community colleges."In [...]
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I'm sorry I hadn't learned of The Conjecturer until today. A blog - on initial reading - mostly about public affairs and political science by Joshua Foust and Dan Allen. I was moved by an excerpt from, and Foust's review of, Rosanne Klass's Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good.From Klass:What [...]
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