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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Soldiers

Today at breakfast, I found out one of my friends on center did a tour in the infantry in Iraq.

Since my next post will be reaction to the Oscars, and I also have two large, non-current-event-type posts in the works, I thought it was time for a little reminder that there is still a war going on there.

Of course we can't spend every second of every day thinking about Iraq. Even the time we spend thinking about affairs in the mid-east can't just be about Iraq; a lot's happened in Syria lately, and Mubarak is pushing for freer elections, proving Joseph Braude eerily prescient.

And I only have five minutes left in the lab, so this will be a depressingly short post. But every now and then, a reminder that Iraq exists is in order, to keep America's painfully short attention span from drifting.