http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/ a citizen's journal by Thomas Nephew Thu, 17 May 2012 23:08:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-2713 newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » The very model of a Powerpoint counterinsurgency general Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:52:29 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-2713 [...] suggests it was no mistake that Petraeus chose a much more misleading set of maps for his slideshow [...] [...] suggests it was no mistake that Petraeus chose a much more misleading set of maps for his slideshow [...]

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-2709 newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » “Surge” to nowhere Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:07:17 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-2709 [...] As I wrote last September ... the conclusion comes from simply looking at a series of ethnic maps of Baghdad [...] [...] As I wrote last September … the conclusion comes from simply looking at a series of ethnic maps of Baghdad [...]

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-2701 Obama: The surge’s success exceeded our “wildest dreams” « a blog inspired by my moodyness Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:13:12 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-2701 [...] once the ethnic cleansing was far advanced, just because there were fewer mixed neighborhoods. Newsrack was among the first to make this argument, though I was tracking the ethnic cleansing at my blog throughout 2007. See also Karen DeYoung of [...] [...] once the ethnic cleansing was far advanced, just because there were fewer mixed neighborhoods. Newsrack was among the first to make this argument, though I was tracking the ethnic cleansing at my blog throughout 2007. See also Karen DeYoung of [...]

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-2590 Thomas Nephew Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:41 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-2590 For the record: this post was cited in July, 2008 by <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/social-history-of-surge.html" rel="nofollow">Juan Cole</a>, whose blog post "A Social History of the Surge" is well worth everyone's time. For the record: this post was cited in July, 2008 by Juan Cole, whose blog post “A Social History of the Surge” is well worth everyone’s time.

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-652 eRobin Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:54:17 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-652 Nell: No need to publicize those walls since they're only temporary. It's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901072.html">the permanent prisons</a> we should be most proud of. Demand <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/report/detention.htm">is up</a>! Nell: No need to publicize those walls since they’re only temporary. It’s the permanent prisons we should be most proud of. Demand is up!

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-651 Nell Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:20:30 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-651 And then there's the map that all Ameriki should see but probably never will: The outlines of the many <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6991448.stm">cement walls</a> and barbed-wire fences our troops and contractors have put up this year. Many (most?) neighborhoods have become prisons, with militias as the guards. And then there’s the map that all Ameriki should see but probably never will: The outlines of the many cement walls and barbed-wire fences our troops and contractors have put up this year. Many (most?) neighborhoods have become prisons, with militias as the guards.

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2007/09/14/progress-is-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-kill/#comment-650 eRobin Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:30:29 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=2222#comment-650 I think I know these answers: Harm to our oil, of course! And other investments yet to be made. No. They can never come home. And anyway, home is Iraq now. We broke it, we bought it. We own it!! It's a fixer upper. No. They can't handle the truth. No. They don't need the truth. They have a cunning plan to be elected on the backs of dead US soldiers and Iraqis. As Colbert would say about where that consigns their mortal souls: "Table for one! Is there anything by the Lake of Fire?" I think I know these answers:
Harm to our oil, of course! And other investments yet to be made.
No. They can never come home. And anyway, home is Iraq now. We broke it, we bought it. We own it!! It’s a fixer upper.
No. They can’t handle the truth.
No. They don’t need the truth. They have a cunning plan to be elected on the backs of dead US soldiers and Iraqis.
As Colbert would say about where that consigns their mortal souls: “Table for one! Is there anything by the Lake of Fire?”

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