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After almost five years of Thursdays, Balkan Express (est. October 19, 2000) is moving – by a day. From this week onward, it will appear on Wednesdays. It may be five years since the ‘revolution’ in Serbia, and ten since the Bosnian War ended, but the Empire is still knee-deep in the Balkans mud, and getting deeper.

Will the illegal occupation of Kosovo end in an ethnically-cleansed Albanian statelet? Will the efforts to create a centralized Bosnia-Herzegovina lead to peace and harmony, or another war? Will the EU devour the region, and either solve its problems or create new ones? That, and a lot more, as Balkan Express enters its sixth year – now on Wednesdays.

Something like this.

Thanks to Kev Hall for the link.

Misleading headlines were abound today:

200 US deaths in Afghanistan

U.S. death toll in Afghanistan hits 200

The real total casualty count for Operation Enduring Freedom has been above 200 since late June of 2005. The discrepancy lies in a qualifier lacking in every article: 200 US troops have died in combat since the beginning of operations in Afghanistan. Here is just one example of the 40+ non-combat deaths. Couple this with the total killed in Iraq and over 2100 US troops have died — in and out of combat — since late 2001. Are we winning yet?

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Glenn Reynolds gets the Afterthought of the Day award for this post. In related news, Birmingham Baron Michael Jordan also played basketball in Chicago.

Not yet, but you had better keep an eye on me, she says:

The safety of the president and the country was put at risk, and it may have been due in part to the blinders of political correctness and complacency. If it means now that the White House will be applying extra scrutiny to naturalized Americans of Filipino descent working at the top levels of government and in the military, well, yes, I support that. It’s obviously overdue. And, as I argued in my last book, it’s just one small step towards the kind of national security profiling we should have introduced aggressively after 9/11. But didn’t.

Emphasis and hyperlink mine. Pray tell, what would be a medium-sized step?