Cedric the Tasmanian Devil has died. Or perhaps I should say, Cedric has been killed. He was deliberately introduced to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, an aggressively infectious, fatal cancer that is threatening to make the Devils go the way of the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, which probably became extinct in the 1930s (some sightings are [...]
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What Obama means by “troop pullout”
The NYT today:
As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed by a small army of contractors, to fill the void.
By October 2011, the State Department will assume responsibility for training the Iraqi police, a task that [...]
Two groups of brave men
Here’s a comment on a blog post by Oliver Brett at the BBC:
I am a proud son of a proud Afghan nation, and nothing and no one has made me and my fellow Afghans more proud than the extraordinary exploits of this superhuman group of lads. They are not just a credit to [...]