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The Times - Why Hezbollah should be condemned When Israel attacked Lebanon in 2006 the world was outraged. What about Hezbollah now? By Dean Godson (research director of the Policy Exchange think-tank)

After all, Hezbollah is one of the world’s most ruthless clerical fascist organisations - complete with ersatz Nazi salutes and Iranian-style Holocaust denial. […]

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Take private industry: We just got a brand new iMac (yes, they finally updated the thing). It came in a box, as they always do, which says, or announces, or, rather, confirms, when you open the lid, “Designed by Apple in California”. It’s all part of the brand. In the Bond Movie Dr. No, on […]

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The Times - EU boys living in the Kabul bubble The Afghan police need more help than they are getting if security is to be established, by Richard Beeston

The EU police mission to Afghanistan is a tiny slice of European order and comfort amid the lawlessness of Kabul. Here police cars are clean and […]

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LGF:

The person who wrote this will undoubtedly thrive on the attention, but if you’d like a glimpse at the dark dead end of leftist thought, here it is: F*CK THE TROOPS. So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. […]

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Telegraph - We’re not wanted by the Iraqis - it’s time to go, by Con Coughlin

At the height of the fighting Brigadier Julian Free, commander of 4 Mechanised Brigade, flew by helicopter to Basra to see the Iraqi prime minister, but al-Maliki refused to see him. Instead Mr al-Maliki turned for help to […]

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NUT. They’re called nuts.

The Times - The Army must go into schools Rule one: never underestimate the vacuous posturing of the National Union of Teachers, by Magnus Linklater

Yesterday the NUT debated a motion that stated that: “Teachers and schools should not be conduits for either the dissemination of MoD propaganda or the recruitment of […]

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So Slate’s asked their pro-Iraq war columnists to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion by writing mea culpas:

Editor’s note: To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Slate has asked a number of writers who originally supported the war to answer the question, “Why did we get it wrong?”

To which […]

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After publishing the pictures and feeding off all the attention to the Harry-in-Afghanistan story, the cranks are coming out. I guess they couldn’t stand the good vibes, or at least not after the money’d been made and the first flurry had passed.

Telegraph (Saturday) - Prince Harry fought for us all - even Jon Snow, by […]

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The Times - Tour de Force The public should salute Prince Harry’s deployment in Afghanistan

The decision to revisit such a delicate issue and to deploy to Afghanistan in secret was also right - and imaginative and bold. It reflects well on the Army for taking a clear-eyed view of Prince Harry’s usefulness not just […]

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That didn’t take long

Times Online - Prince Harry aborts Afghan mission after web leak

Emergency plans to extract Prince Harry from Afghanistan were being drawn up tonight after the news leaked that he had been on a secret combat tour in Helmand province since before Christmas. After being denied the chance […]

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Times Online - Breaking - Prince Harry serving on ’secret’ mission in Afghanistan

Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, has been on a tour of duty with the British Army in Afghanistan since before Christmas, it emerged today. The Prince has been on active duty in the country since […]

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The Telegraph - John McCain, Obama and America’s problem

‘Certainly America does need to restore its authority in the world.” If a politician had said this five years ago, we would have assumed that he was anti-American, or at least strongly hostile to the Republican Party. But the comment comes from William Hague, the […]

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The Tank (NRO) - Does Congress Realize We’re at War? by Joel Arends

At midnight tonight America will become much more susceptible to a terrorist act. It will happen because the Democrat-controlled Congress failed to reauthorize the Protect America Act. This legislation gives our military, intelligence, and law-enforcement communities the tools they need to […]

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LGF - Mughniyeh: Killed in a Work Accident?

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Wait for the slow-mo replay and you can see the dude react to the sound of the first missile and start running like hell before the second one.

So, Navy readers, walk us through this. Is there no little alarm thingie announcing that it’s a bad idea to go for a stroll ’round the back of […]

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