". . . a republic, if you can keep it."
“Last week saw more than 400 attacks, eight times the rate of January 2004.
Gen Petraeus said the numbers of insurgent attacks was expected to increase as troops target their bases and safe havens.
There are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, mostly under Nato command.
The Obama administration plans to send an additional 21,000 troops.” (Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)
More change we can believe in.
Schizophrenia is a euphemism. Hypocrisy and/or idiocy is more apt.
“As Hulsmann explains, the ‘leadership of the U.S. Federal Reserve is aware of this situation.’ (Page 233) OK. That’s reassuring. But if U.S. officials are concerned about the terrible consequences of a POSSIBLE dumping of dollars on the U.S. market, why are they UNCONCERNED about the consequences of their own efforts to stimulate the economy, which involves the same mechanism that they so fear from foreign actions; that is, massive expansion of the money supply?
The government has taken two actions that will expand the money supply every bit as much as possible foreign actions to dump the dollar–expansion of the monetary base by the Federal Reserve Bank and the Obama administration’s spending spree.” (Read more from patrickbarron.blogspot.com)