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The term 'infidel' is not viewed by many as a neutral term that simply indicates a non-believer, but someone actively hostile to Islam. No doubt much of the Muslim world will take this as an endorsement of that latter view.

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me coming in guns-a-blazing, with absolute certainty and confidence that what I say next will eliminate any doubt about my competence

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Let’s be very clear. This level of detail sent via this medium to this audience is not at all about operational necessity or ‘need to know.’ This is a CHILD trying to show off his new toys to friends he is trying to impress.

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Not wrong.

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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

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These are men of no character. Truly pathetic

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So much of the academic writing process is about learning too much, awkwardly trying to summarize or synthesize that knowledge, and then forgetting just enough to make something coherent.

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To my Stringer Bell point earlier: you have multiple signal chats on national fucking security?

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Including the wrong recipient is a mistake. Using a non-government platform for classified information is a crime.

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Process matters when you're doing important things. Every process that annoys you and slows things down is there because someone has learned a hard lesson.

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We’re looking at the “if you drop more bombs, that should do it, because the previous 20 years of war were woke and didn’t involve dropping enough bombs” school of analysis of what airpower can and cannot accomplish

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Pay for journalism. The number of lawyer-hours that went into this story alone had to be wildly expensive.

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The existence of "Houthi PC Small Group" guarantees that there are myriad other such threads on every other national security and policy decision being made. Not just a threat to national security, but a threat to the maintenance of official records and public accountability.

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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

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Does this apply if you’re a MAGA and the January 6 rioters who assaulted me and my colleagues?

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This was the origin story at Cornell. Even now, 1969 is framed as an armed takeover of a building. Although technically true, it began with a cross burning in front of a co-op for Black women, followed by a white frat attacking an unarmed protest. Did I mention it was parents weekend?

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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

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Cool. Well, I was going to wait until May for AAPI Heritage to do a daily post of Asian American valor. But since the Army is filled with bootlicking, segregationist, feckless cowards, fuck it we ball. Let’s carry the fire 🧵:

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In the Pentagon's first official press briefing under the new admin, the topic of accountability for the #Afghanistan withdrawal came up... 1/n www.defense.gov/News/Transcr...

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Great line: Columbia will remain the college of no king.

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danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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57 years ago, on March 16, 1968, US troops killed 504 Vietnamese civilians - mostly older people, mothers, and children. I am spending the day at the My Lai memorial with Ron Haeberle, the photographer, and got to meet the last of the survivors, of whom just a handful are still alive.

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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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What good was the defense of freedom if we allow it to whither in front of us? I wouldn't know, I never defended anyone's freedom.

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Something fun: matching quotes from jihadist theologian Sayyid Qutb's disgusted account of his 1948-50 sojourn in America with photos of Americans who could also have said them

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New drop for a combat zone campaign ribbon? I was there for the major campus clearances. more cameras than cops. More cops than protesting kids.

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Attempting to destroy a university that's ~23% Jewish on the grounds of "fighting antisemitism" kind of gives the game away.

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"Lethality!", he screams, as he enters the battlefields of the Great Culture War "This culture warrior’s identity politics will ultimately make the U.S. military weaker." #CivMilSky

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Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I generally don't miss being in academia, but this kind of cordial, fact-based, pursuit of truth is academic research at its best.

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Fantastic effort.

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