Balloon map of state military spending (2002), with the US accounting for 45% of overall military expenditures.
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Lawrence of Arabia
Of course, we saw a couple of weeks ago that the Americans are not the only ones interested in playing this game.
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abunoor
Imam Zaid Shakir — Thomas Friedman : Prisoner in a Glass House
I will make Mr. Friedman a wager. I bet that Muslims will wage an ideological civil war to address their violent extremists long before Americans will. I bet that long after Muslims have reclaimed their subjectivity in this regard, most “objectified” Americans will still be passively acquiescing to the imperatives of the military, and now, terrorist, industrial complexes. Like Mr. Friedman, their failure to meaningfully address America’s militarism, aggression and violence will render them prisoners in a glass house.
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AA
dialogue has led to hundreds if not thousands of members of these groups renouncing violence against civilian and noncombatant forces. It has resulted in
thousands of pages of literature and a deep societal debate in Egypt. Dr. Sherman Jackson, an Islamic studies and Arabic professor at the University of Michigan, is currently translating some of this literature into English and has lectured extensively about this initiative.
Translating these books into English is indeed important.
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Willow
Does he need help? I know a couple of excellent native speaking Arabic translators…
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shams
Friedmans actual
houseMcmansion.
In the land of morans, the imbecile is king.
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thabet and 
shams, 
AA are discussing. 
Lawrence of Arabia 2:48 pm on September 14, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
…and even if the military packed up every soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan and redeployed them, the US would still have military personnel stationed in over 150 countries (2005) that are not the United States.
thabet 4:19 pm on September 14, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Have you read the books by Chalmers Johnson?
Lawrence of Arabia 5:56 pm on September 14, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
only Blowback. I have a copy of his new one, Dismantling the Empire, sitting on my desk, but would like to read the intervening two books first.
thabet 1:24 pm on September 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The other author I’ve been reading a lot of is Andrew Bacevich. It’s interesting to note that Johnson was a self-described Cold War hawk and Bacevich by all accounts is conservative and Catholic.