Washington Post – Thomas Ricks notes as fighting in Afghanistan has intensified over the past three months, the U.S. military has conducted 340 airstrikes there, more than twice the 160 carried out in the much higher-profile war in Iraq, according to data from the Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters for the Middle East.
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Daily Archives: June 18, 2006
Geopolitics / Middle East – A Bitter Prize
Foreign Affairs – Israel occupied and settled the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights because of a combination of nationalism and religious agitation. Ariel Sharon’s dismantling of the Gaza settlements last year broke a political taboo, and could herald a return to “Zionist realism.”
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