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		<title>The Downside of “Cultural Sensitivity”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will we say enough is enough? As I watch the atrocities mount in Syria, and our President apologize to the citizens of Afghanistan for an honest error, it highlighted not only the differences in culture between Middle Eastern countries and the United States but also the absolute fallacy that everyone’s culture should be respected. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=68063&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.&#8221; &#8211; Tariq al Hashimi, Iraqi vice president, January 29 Is Tariq Hashimi’s statements to Nuri Al Maliki a thinly veiled threat or a vision of the future? It’s a statement of fact either way. When I was in Iraq I had occasion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=65456&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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