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Terrorism in India, a roster of incidents

Terrorism is a global phenomenon, but still poorly understood.  What do terrorists hope to gain by random destruction?  How often does terrorism work?  Desite the many studies, it still remains a mysterious thing to me. This post looks at terrorism in the world’s largest and one of its older democracies — India — in an excerpt from …

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Forecasts for the American Expedition to Iraq

What comes next in Iraq? Here are some straight-line extrapolations. Nothing certain, but these seem like good bets. 1.  American public support for the Iraq War has evolved to the tipping point — the critical level at which mainstream politicos move to explicit opposition. In this sense Iraq is a second Vietnam: a foreign war …

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