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Myths of the exodus from Afghanistan

I like this. It’s from yesterday’s New York Times. “Senator Christopher Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut who supports President Joe...

Iran’s atomic bomb?

The panic button on Iran is being pressed again. A report by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),...

Out of Afghanistan.

The Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979 and withdrew, exhausted and demoralized, 10 years later. In Moscow a joke had long...

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