Month: July 2006
Restating what should be some obvious points...Israel has clear conventional superiority of Hezbollah and Lebanon, and can obviously do a lot of damage. However, the idea that Israel can destroy.
Like Ezra, I think that Ze'ev Schiff's assessment of the Iranian role in the Hezbollah attacks is plausible, with some caveats. The employment of a relatively modern surface to surface.
The problem with a precedent is, of course, that someone might follow it. Rodger writes:Given how the US reacted to the traumatic 9/11 attacks -- wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
Remember when James Lileks gave an obscene, definitively chickenhawkish ("from my home in suburban Minnesota, I feel comfortable lecturing you for your unwillingness to engage in a suicidal revolutionary mission.
Echidne, Steve and Mahablog have already effectively covered this Times story about a new government study about public and private schools. There are two stories here: 1)the differences between the.
Make sure to read Kingdaddy's excellent series on the Barbary Wars:Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVKingdaddy has some good observations, and makes some interesting parallels between the dilemmas facing the early.
I certainly don't have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in.
I'll be on WVLK at 10:07am Eastern to discuss the Israel-Arab dispute. As readers of this blog know, this is a subject that I'm well-versed in and love to talk.