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Debate: On

You campaign with poetry, but you govern with prose.
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Watching the debate for a second time - the first time on the elliiptical, this evening. Thought - like every other blogger out there, I’m sure - that I’d post some thoughts. My (caustic) thoughts in green. Comments that grabbed my attention in [...]

The Hidden Mind - Reasoning about Iranian/U.S. conflict

“The key of strategy… is not to choose a path to victory,
but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.”
(Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game)
Re:
U.S. says Iranian boats harassed warships http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22537199/
Was writing about the Iran-US conflict (my last post on this), but realized later that, while I spent time trying to [...]

The Iran-U.S. War, incoming

U.S. says Iranian boats harassed warships
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22537199/
WASHINGTON - Iranian boats harassed and provoked three American Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to blow up the vessels, U.S. officials said Monday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday the confrontation was “something normal” and was resolved, suggesting the Iranian boats had not recognized the U.S. vessels. [...]

“the side of Iran visitors rarely see”

A little vid from CNN about “the side of Iran visitors rarely see”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/20754821#20754821
I’ll post it in videos too.
The author effuses about nonmarried couples holding hands, in public (!!!!) and about a woman showing her own horse - at a high-class country club. If you go up in the mountains, he says, the police don’t go [...]

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