The Syrian refugees who are currently undergoing a two year vetting process had nothing to do with the attacks in Paris. They are the Albert Einsteins trying to get out of Nazi […]
Help me Governor McCrory, you’re my only hope
Maliki: one of the wrongest horses the U.S. ever backed
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may not be as bad as Saddam Hussein, but he’s only slightly less worse. In yet another definitive piece for the New Yorker titled What We Left […]
Donald Rumsfeld’s biggest unknown: himself
Donald Rumsfeld was less afraid of what intelligence revealed than what it didn’t ― that is, almost everything. The New York Times recently ran a four-part post in its Opinionator section by […]
Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces
Mental Illness a Prerequisite to Run for Public Office It’s unbelievable what people would do to be in power. I know: It happens everywhere. I can’t believe that normal people in their […]
To Wolfowitz, Iraq was just a chance for the U.S. to demonstrate its power
To Bush Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the invasion of Iraq wasn’t war as much as an advanced form of saber-rattling. Andrew Bacevich’s Letter to Paul Wolfowitz at Harper’s has been […]
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (4/1)
War: Not Just Hell, But the Tenth Circle Thereof War is obscene. I mean that in every sense of the word. Some veterans will tell you that you can’t know war if […]
Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces
Emphasis, as always, added. Worst Fatwa Ever Another clergy member offered biblical justification for the military’s death flights, according to an account by one of the pilots anguished about dumping drugged prisoners […]
Biden embraces myth that surge turned Iraq into good war
By embracing the myth of the surge, Joe Biden reveals the extent to which the Obama administration has continued Bush’s strategy.
Nota Bene #114: Big Star
“The radio makes hideous sounds.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some […]
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