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Current Issue	October 9, 2006 Issue Liberating Ourselves By Paul W. Schroeder Ending U.S. participation in the no-win war in Iraq would be a kind of victory. GOP Safety Valve By W. James Antle III Can the Republicans’ credibility on national security overcome their weakness on Iraq? Trading Places By John Zmirak Conservatives and liberals both stand to gain by looking through the others’ eyes. Back to the Future By James Howard Kunstler Those who consider American urban centers permanent fixtures haven’t counted on contracting energy supplies. Cartoon Castro By Peter Hitchens The Left’s fantasies about Cuba should die with Castro. Provoking Pakistan By Eric S. Margolis Pervez Mursharraf is this year’s Anwar Sadat. The Morons Shall Inherit the Earth By Steve Sailer Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy”	He Wrote the Book on Torture By James Bovard War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror by John Yoo Recovering the Lost Liturgy By Thomas E. Woods Jr. The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background by Klaus Gamber Chanteuse of Strange Fruit By Ralph de Toledano Lady sang the blues Losing the Will to Fight By Patrick J. Buchanan Americans are tired of paying the butcher’s bill. We Need to Talk By Taki Better to jaw-jaw than to war-war Fourteen Days: Bush Tortures the Rule of Law; Lobby Strikes Back; Laura, Where’s My Flight Suit? Deep Background: Iran War Plan; Manucher Ghorbanifar, Arms and Disinformation Dealer; Torture Tells Us What We Already Know Copyright © 2006 The American Conservative