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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for January 2007

Untrained, “carnival barker” western media - can the western media be mentally "occupied"?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, January 29, 2007 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Australians chose unity and national identity - reject multiculturalism

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:37 PM | Add Comment

Strategic tipping point? Cooperative tone of Sadr - pleasant surprise for the U.S.?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 26, 2007 9:42 AM | Add Comment

USA Media knows systematic bias equals propaganda, yet they march on untroubled

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, January 22, 2007 9:20 AM | Add Comment

2,500 Cougar and Buffalo trucks in 2003 would have made all the difference in this war - of all the spending, it comes down to pennies in the right place -

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:36 PM | Add Comment

DOD faces a new era - Compulsive Adversarialism with in the media

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:38 AM | Add Comment

It's Washington on "borrowed time". Not the boys in Baghdad. The mullahs are going to be just fine.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:16 AM | Add Comment

Rumsfeld's War on candor - the full story

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, January 15, 2007 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic news for the USA in Ramadi and all of Anbar Province - finally, a superb development.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, January 15, 2007 12:46 PM | Add Comment

With the current mindset of the American people, do we have an expensive show piece Army much like Napoleon’s Navy? Looks good and it is very expensive but you can’t use it for extended periods?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 12, 2007 3:46 PM | Add Comment

In the end, the White House favored the idea of more troops as one visible and dramatic step the administration could take.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:39 PM | Add Comment

The Roman army built Hadrian's wall in how many years? Did it take more or less time than the USA has been in Iraq?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, January 08, 2007 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Having an efficient bureaucracy is the key determinant of whether a country wins in war or is the loser.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:33 PM | Add Comment

No real Sunni unrest post Saddam? Could it be the Sunnis are terrified of 175,000 cold-blooded Shiite Militiamen?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, January 07, 2007 10:07 AM | Add Comment

America's Worst Generation staged the Vietnam anti-war protests. Democrats in America turned their backs on the Democrats in South Vietnam.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 3:16 PM | Add Comment

On the economic front, Iran is extremely vulnerable.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 2:36 PM | Add Comment

France - Helped French speaking Hutus slaughter 1,000,000 English speaking Tutsis

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 9:29 AM | Add Comment

The New York Times and Schanberg were wrong then and the NYT is delusive now.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 9:16 AM | Add Comment

Mexico Border - National Guard troops possibly fired on - position overrun, U.S. forced to retreat.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Fat-cat Liberals - hypocrites scalp $1,000 per ticket, select few given access.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, January 05, 2007 7:50 AM | Add Comment

Does the Iraqi Government want the same as the United States: a multi-ethnic country, with power shared between factions?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:50 PM | Add Comment

Paris Jihad - 400 cars torched in France in one evening - 12.31.06 - Four days ago.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Maliki - "I don't want this job!" This statement explains a lot.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:18 PM | Add Comment

Do George Bush and the Iraqis have different “end states” in Iraq in mind?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:26 AM | Add Comment

“We could not clear and hold,” Stephen J. Hadley

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Leftist anti-war propaganda will only work if U.S. Generals have a poor strategic dexterity

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Is doctrine becoming irrational?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:32 PM | Add Comment

Is there no way to successfully conclude a conflict when Democrat political opponents and social-science civilian theorists claim total victory is simply too hard on the country and risky for the world?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:20 PM | Add Comment
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