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World Watch Focus: Seeing Is Believing
The constant drone of negative media reporting on Iraq cannot help but leave most people feeling pessimistic on the long-term success in that country. Even President Bush can sometimes succumb that same pessimism, not matter how much he may believe in the mission he started in Iraq, so because of that risk, President Bush went to Iraq to see the state of affairs there himself. Continue reading
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World Watch Focus: Evaluating the Mission in Iraq
On 9 June 2006, Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute, wrote an interesting piece for Fox News about his argument for why the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi should be the last signal for why the US should withdraw its forces from Iraq. While I agree with some of Mr. Carpenter’s basic premises, his major theme that the US should withdraw from Iraq altogether is flawed. Continue reading
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World Watch Focus: Al-Zarqawi, Ministers, and the USS Cole
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was indeed a significant event in the ongoing military operations in Iraq and in the greater struggle against the terrorism fueled by Islamic fundamentalism. Yet, al-Zarqawi’s death must also be seen in its proper context and within the confluence of events that represent that greater struggle, a perspective that has often been lost. Continue reading
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World Watch Focus: Transparency in Educational Funding.
It is amazing how little the taxpayers, the 100% shareholders in the funding of public education, know about how the money collected is spent in support of education. Yet, many school districts are constantly asking for more while never really explaining what happened to the money already spent. One of the most obvious symptoms of this problem is the never ending reality that teachers are never paid what they are worth. Continue reading
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World Watch Focus: Missing the Point
‘World Watch Focus: an ‘Idle’ Nation’’, a previous post on this weblog, has generated a great deal of discussion, both on and offline, since it was posted. It has also illustrated that quite a few of the people who read the post failed to understand its central point, most often simply because it specifically targeted the show ‘American Idol’. Continue reading
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