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Analysts in the region suspect that the decision to mount a cross-border raid into Syria was driven more by the military needs of Army commanders in Iraq than by political calculations from Washington. According to the analysts, the Joint Special Operations Command has considerable autonomy in choosing missions in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. "This is coming out of the Army. I don't think this is a parting shot from the Bush Administration," Tabler says...
...long trend. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Americans drove 15 billion fewer miles in August, or 5.6% less than they did the year before. DOT says it's the largest ever year-to-year decline recorded in a single month. Over the past 10 months, Americans have driven 78 billion fewer miles than they did in the same 10 months the previous year - sure proof of what economists call "demand destruction...
...Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sees the reintroduction of alter-ego Georgie Fruit (see: Aladdin Sane), but sheds some of that album’s tight electronic instrumentals and most of its sense of structure in favor of a much looser approach and a more funk-driven sound. And while Of Montreal have always been theatrical and a bit all over the place, “Skeletal Lamping” is disjointed to the point where even the idea of dividing it into its 15 distinct tracks seems kind of pointless. Within almost every track there...
...Indonesia, by contrast, Suharto signed an IMF agreement that he had no intention of carrying out. Four months later he was driven from office, replaced by B.J. Habibie, his hyperactive Vice President, a man better known for his expensive and far-fetched plans to build an aircraft industry than for any clear sense of how to develop Indonesia's economy. Indonesia has struggled to keep its head above water ever since...
...sound strange to praise a long-running show—six seasons over eight years—for knowing when to quit, but the fact is that David Chase and the rest of the “Sopranos” team realized the limits of their storyline. Shows driven by complex antihero protagonists thrive on anticipation, with loyal viewers tuning in each week to see when the main character’s internal conflict will finally reach its boiling point and lead to either his downfall or triumph. The problem is that once the peak of the character?...