I meant to post something about the hypocrisy of criticizing General McChrystal for publicly assessing the situation in Afghanistan, but William Galston has already nailed it.
I will add that at this point, I have no idea what we hope to accomplish in Afghanistan. I personally believe it would be nice if we pursued a better [...]
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Democrats against democracy…
Dan Quayle's Russian Kin?
Russian Communist Party member’s attack James Bond for political points. My favorite claim:
The party’s leader, Sergei Malinkovich, said: “Everyone knows that the CIA and MI6 finance James Bond films as a special operation of psychological warfare against us. This Ukranian girl sleeps with Bond and that means that Ukraine is sleeping with the West.”
I guess [...]
Zimbabwe
The elections in Zimbabwe came to an all-too-predictable end today. There are few things I can think of that I feel more conflicted over than our obligations when such failures take place. The UK appears to be moving quickly into the realm of sanctions and I don’t have any real sense of where the United [...]
"I Told You So" (For Educational Purposes)
From On Revolution
“the interrelationship between war and revolution, their reciprocation and mutual dependence, has steadily grown, and that emphasis in the relationship has shifted more and more from war to revolution.”
“In the contest that divides the world today and in which so much is at stake, those will probably win who understand revolution, while those [...]
An Interactive Map of Sudan
The Washington Post has a nice interactive map of Sudan, and a little time line outlining some of the major events in the history of what has happened there.
The failure of the United States to get involved to stop a genocide over two years after publicly acknowledging it as such, in defense of a [...]
Dana Milbank on Darfur
I wanted to point to a WaPo Online piece by Dana Milbank on the Press Conference by the Sudanese Ambassador to the United States. Milbank treats this meeting with the appropriate amount of incredulity that it deserves. Here’s a question, how many Northern Sudanese do you suppose believes this? The short answer, I suppose, is [...]
Is this goign to be it?
Will Iran’s seizing of English sailors leading to conflict between the US and Iran? The President came out with some stern words yesterday, and the Washington Post has a story about how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are behind this and are the Iranian hardliners. Uncertain times lay ahead.
Why don't we take Russian Political Crises Seriously?
The Somalia Crisis
First off, I want to express that The Washington Post has been all over reporting the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, and giving it the attention that it so truly deserves. I saw little to no coverage on the networks tonight, the Harrisburg Patriot News had a couple of paragraph story on page A8, and as [...]
Booing the Refs
All countries have a nationalistic "homerism" that comes to the surface whenever anyone writes a book or does a study that criticizes policies that their own coutry. I wonder how much this is the case with the flap around Jimmy Carter’s new book. I still can’t get over the fact that American’s once elected someone [...]
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