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Sharing The Journey
http://blog.patconover.com
Sharing The Journey is the political blog of Pat Conover. It is based on the experience of working for eighteen years as a policy advocate on issues of poverty, human rights, and peace for the United Church of Christ. It is progressive in perspective and independent in analysis.
- Added on: Oct 28th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Pat Conover
- Listed in: Politics Christianity
- Tags: christian Democrat progressive human rights poverty independent
Recent Posts
The Southern Provinces and Counter Insurgency
Perhaps the most important clarification in the Obama speech at West Point is that the U.S. counter-insurgency efforts will focus on the Southern provinces of Afghanistan. The Southern focus makes sense because most of the rest of Afghanistan alrea...
First Response: Obama Speech and New Data
I hope you, my faithful blog readers, felt prepared to evaluate the Obama speech on Afghanistan. I invite comments on the speech in general as well as your response to this post using the comment button below. In addition to listening to Obama...
Military Costs in Afghanistan
Would you like to understand the costs of sending an additional 34,000 combat troops to Afghanistan? So would I. What you will get in this post is context for understanding the questions involved and a few referent numbers that provide some landm...
Corruption in Afghanistan
This post is the fourth in a series on Afghanistan. To understand this post I suggest that you read my previous post by scrolling down if you have not read it already. A key strategic question that is proving difficult to estimate, let alone answer...
Afghanistan Orientation
Previous posts have addressed the theory of counter-insurgency as it applies to U.S. efforts and plans in Afghanistan as those plans relate to the Christian Just Peace tradition and argued for Christian based support of the proposed expansion of comb...
The Big Squeeze in Health Care Reform
October 26, 2009 This is Monday, the first day of the week of the big squeeze decisions in health care reform. Actually, two big political processes are going on simultaneously. On the one hand, the basic financial structure of health are reform ...
