Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Oct. 3

--10-3-07—Iraqis need a year to control Baghdad US General [Odierno] says—NYT A8

--He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster, Nietzsche said…. Once there was the military industrial complex. Now we have the mercenary industrial complex. Mr. Prince [Blackwater CEO] a former intern to the first President Bush … is from a well-to-do and well-connected Republican family from Michigan. He and his father both have close ties to conservative Christian groups. —Maureen Dowd NYT A25

--America’s heady deficit with the rest of the world has long looked like an accident waiting tohappen. With the dollar’s recent slide,it doesn’t look like it’s waiting anymore. WSJ C1

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