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October 8, 2007 Issue

Sycophant Savior
By Andrew J. Bacevich
General Petraeus protects official Washington from its greatest fear: admitting it was wrong.

Fire Fight
By Paul W. Schroeder
The conflagration in Iraq won’t be extinguished until the American arsonist departs.

War Whisperers
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Americans will vote for a new president, but the same Beltway apparatchiks will be guiding our foreign policy.

Surge Protectors
By Philip Weiss
More to Freedom’s Watch than meets the eye

Slip Sliding Away
By James Howard Kunstler
The mortgage collapse presages a broader meltdown.

Mutiny in the Valley
by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Hudson Valley Minutemen

From Russia, Without Love
By Steve Sailer
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”

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Rose Garden of Good and Evil
By Tom Piatak
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald

Speaking Your Mind
By John Derbyshire
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

The Waugh at Home
By Daniel McCarthy
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh

Is Belgium Breaking Up?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Busted Belgium

This Bloody Honor
By Daniel Larison
Paul vs. Huckabee

It’s Not the Freedom, Stupid
By Fred Reed
As Others See Us

Fourteen Days: President Bush’s Fake Country; Abizaid: A Wiser General; McCain’s Totalitarian Temptation

Deep Background: Bin Laden’s Favorite American; Playing Mind Games with Iran; Cheney’s Bypass

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