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Buried in an amazing poll released by the Pew Research Center today that says 1 in 3 post-9/11 veterans believe the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were ‘not worth fighting,’ is an assertion that 6 in 10 such veterans polled also have ‘isolationist inclinations’ simply because they believe “the United States should pay less attention to [...]
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timely cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker
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After months of speculation, the U.S military has killed an American-born cleric in what is probably the clearest indication that the U.S Constitution has been set aside for another (ever-evolving) piece of paper called the Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF). Now the military has truly become judge, jury and executioner, with the full blessing [...]
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Peter Hitchens laments the fact that the utopia of progressive visions is, as they often say, ‘a world without borders’. Getting rid of borders, he says, takes all the fun out of it. Utopia, you may be sure, has no borders. It goes on forever. There is no escape from it from horizon to horizon. [...]
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John Mearsheimer wears his vindication well. The 63-year-old University of Chicago professor and co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy (with Harvard Professor Stephen Walt) never said he felt vindicated, per se, but the glint in his eye and that smile – like the cat that just ate the mouse – said it [...]
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The media mantra, and that of many interventionists in seat of government, continues to be that we are in the Middle East to encourage “democracy.” But democracy qua democracy is simply majority rule… what happens when that majority becomes an angry mob? Under democracy a majority can vote away the rights and property of others. [...]
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At least the U.S. military and other NATO air forces have already had lots of practice hammering this country. Who could have ever foreseen that the Islamist radicals would take over after the U.S. helped topple the country’s dictator? Today’s New York Times: “Islamists’ Growing Sway Raises Questions for Libya” In the emerging post-Qaddafi Libya… [...]
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Do you remember traveling with your young children and urging them to “hold it” for a while in order to delay all too frequent bathroom stops? Well, travel by air now has its own version of that. I confess to having mixed feelings, but mostly negative, about yesterday’s report of two airliners being shadowed by F-16 fighter [...]
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On this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here are a few epigrams plucked from my Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003): Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy. The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every [...]
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The recently revealed joint CIA/NYPD operations being run all along the Eastern Seaboard are, of course, completely illegal but are perhaps symptomatic of the past decade’s use of the word “terrorist” to excuse any and all bad behavior by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The NYPD Intelligence Division and Counter-Terrorism Bureau, which incorporates a “dirty [...]
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