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Author Biography
Nationality 1: American
Birthdate: 1912
Nationality 1: American
Birthdate: 1918
Deathdate: 1965
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Lederer has written many books, including novels, short stories, and nonfiction on a variety of topics, during his long career. His best known work is The Ugly American (1958; with Burdick). His other novels include Sarkhan (1965; with Burdick) and I, Giorghos (1984). Ensign O'Toole and Me (1957) is a humorous look at life in the navy; A Nation of Sheep (1961) discusses how the United States could be more successful in its foreign aid projects. The Mirages of Marriage (1968; with Don D. Jackson) is an analysis of marriage in the United States. Other works include The Last Cruise (1950), All the Ships at Sea (1950), Timothy's Song (1965), The Story of Pink Jade (1966), Our Own Worst Enemy (1968; published in England in 1969 as The Anguished American), and A Happy Book of Christmas Stories (1981).
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Eugene (Leonard) Burdick was born in Sheldon, Iowa, on December 12, 1918. He was the son of Jack Dale, a painter, and Marie (Ellerbroek) Burdick.
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A terrorist who travels all the way from europe or tunisia to syria but sees nothing wrong in europe or tunisia what nonsense
1. THE MASTER DOG TRAINER
AND DOGS
Shedding Crocodiles Tears
about Radical Islam
Agha H Amin , Major (retired) ,
PAVO Cavalry
Young, Successful Brits
Joining ISIS ,so laments
Clarion Project !
Clarion Project this and that
,Financial Post , so many
Solomons are brandishing
2. their pedantic and hollow
knowledge ?
How many British and US
journalists possess the
INTELLECTUAL HONESTY to
question the fact that Iraq
and Middle East were
destabilised by Bushs
thoughtless Iraq War ?
If conducted wisely Iraq War
would have gone down as a
great effort in humanity and
liberating Iraq ? But with
characters like Bremmer and
3. Petraeus Iraq War
degenerated into a senseless
massacre with no grand
strategic objective ? ISIS and
Syrian War are two brililliant
legacies of Bushs faux pas in
Iraq ?
And now we have another
sinking ship Afghanistan ?
About to witness a
DISGRACEFUL FLIGHT ?
Abandoning Afghanistan to
wolves that the west along
with Pakistanis and Saudis
laboured so hard to
4. promiscuously breed in 1978-
1992 ?
Britain has a long history of
using religious
militants against each
other.An old Britisher
when asked about use of
Pashtuns at Lucknow in
1858 stated that if a Pashtun
Muslim kills a rebel
Muslim or Hindu or vice versa
it is equally good.
US and Britain have a
disgraceful record of actively
5. using Islamist extremists
against secular progressive
Muslim regimes starting from
Indonesia to Libya Iraq
and Syria.Why are western
journalists such hypocrites
shedding these crocodiles
tears
is HYPOCRISY PAR
EXCELLENCE !
So short are memories of
people in Asia that they forget
that
attacks against iconic
females were first carried out
6. by Western
sponsored so called
Mujahideen in Soviet Afghan
war as early as
mid 1980s . This is when
famous Afghan female singer
Bakht Zameen was abducted ,
raped and her body mutilated
by so called US-UK-Saudi-Paki
Mujahideen.
The same Western sponsored
clowns were planting
bombs in Kabul University's
cafeteria , probably. targeting
Brezhnevs wife
7. enrolled in an adult education
program in Kabul University ?
A dispassionate glance at
history proves that Britain and
US repeatedly used radical
Islamists to displace secular
relatively progressive regimes
starting from Mossadegh coup
in Iran ,Indonesian Soekarno
coup down to Soviet Afghan
War,
Iraq War of 2003,Libyan war
of 2010 ,Syrian War of 2010-
ongoing,etc.
8. How is it that no Islamist
attacks or blasts in EU or USA
but
travels thousands of miles to
blast only in Shia Alavi
controlled Syria ?
A brilliant British author has
well exlored this theme in his
land mark book "Secret
Affairs ".
This is known as a book who
Tony Blair would not like
anyone to read ?
9. My studies of so called wars
since 1991 convince me that
barring
9/11 non state actors puny pin
pricks have been nominal
threats
to western civilisation ?
Ironically the so called
threats to world peace have
risen from Islamists created
by Soviet Afghan War, Iraq
War of 2003 ,ongoing Afghan
War since
2001 and Syrian War of 2010
sponsored with active
10. US/NATO support.
But somehow these Islamists
also target Muslims only in 95
% cases ?
FBI statistics prove that
Hispanics and non Muslim
groups top terrorist attacks
worldwide and that average
American is more likely to die
from falling furniture than any
terrorist attack.
Brillliant US analyst Ed
Luttwak described Islamists
11. as minor irritants and no
strategic threats to USA as
Brookings and characters like
Bruce Reidel are trying to
prove.
Now the level of knowledge of
SIMPLY BRILLIANT AND
INFALLIBLE WESTERN
ANALYSTS ! Stephen Cohen
wants us to believe that there
was no ALL MUSLIM unit in
British Indian Army ? Absolute
NONSENSE that Cohen picked
from a Pakistani generals
book ! Washington Posts
12. Foreign Policy invents a new
province in Afghanistan
known as NERKH !!! The most
brilliant US analyst David
Sangers knowledge can be
imagined from the fact that he
described Pakistan army chief
with another name Akhtar
Kiani or something in his most
recent book ?
The real danger to world
peace thus are state actors
acting without grand strategic
talent ! US and UK lead in this
13. wonderful adventurism !
The real danger to world
peace thus are state actors I
AM BSED IN AFGHANISTAN
SINCE 2003.
NINENTY PERCENT OF SO
CALLED EXTREMISTS ARE (1)
PAKISTANI STATE PROXIES
(2) FOLLOWED BY US
PROXIES
ONLY TEN PERCENT ARE
REAL NON STATE ACTORS
AND THESE ARE SMALL TIME
14. CRIMINALS.
AL QAEDA ISIS ETC , ARE
JUST SPICES USED BY
JOURNALISTS TO MAKE THE
STORY MORE TASTY AND
DELICIOUS.