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Author: Robert Farley

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The Qatar Thing

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On October 10, 2025
Approximately every human being on the planet has been texting me about the Qatar air base story: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Pentagon has agreed to host a new Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho, saying that the nation has...

The Deal?

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On October 10, 2025

Most any discussion of Israel-Palestine in the United States these days boils down to intra-coalitional warfare. Unsurprisingly, the ceasefire that began yesterday is being weaponized for conflict with the Democratic.

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An Alternate History

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On October 7, 2025
Folks talk a lot about the Israeli intelligence failures that enabled 10/7, and with good reason. Israel's intelligence and police agencies allowed a well-trained, well-resourced, and committed group of attackers to undertake long-range planning and then to execute those plans in such impeccable fashion that...
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Henry Farrell has some characteristically well-developed thoughts on our current social media environment: As someone with different priors myself, I would suggest that the more useful and accurate dichotomy is between the Village and the Sewer. That would not differentiate hide-bound traditional elites from calm,...

Restraint!

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On October 2, 2025

Donald the Dove strikes again! President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and.

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Resentiment

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On October 1, 2025
It is not normally my practice to quote neocons here, even those who have some useful claim to reform (or at least to "the Republican Party Left Me," which isn't quite reform) because whatever their useful contributions the ideological affiliation tends quite reasonably to obscure...
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