Robert Kagan:I would worry about an American foreign policy driven only by fear of how our actions might inspire anger, radicalism and violence in others. As in the past, that should be only one calculation in our judgment of what does and does not make...
Author: Robert Farley
David Corn euthanizes Christopher Hitchens. For more than two decades, I have seen Hitchens weave facts and assertions into stylistically brilliant copy as he attempts to intuit great truths. But.
Mel Gibson's anti-semitic tirade wasn't quite enough to drive away Michael Medved, who wrote at the time:Rather than driving this tormented, self-destructive, deeply disturbed but vastly talented artist into the.
Chock full o' futuriness (via Defense News, subscription required):China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources. It remains unclear how many times a...
Heh.When, on CNN, Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, belittled the report as the product of liberal journalists, Richard C. Holbrooke, the United.
The Imperial Japanese Navy was not completely satisfied with its first effort at super-dreadnoughts, the Fuso class. Japanese naval architects slightly modified the design to include more protection and a.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Defense News:An independent assessment of IEDs in Iraq, obtained by Defense News and based on British military intelligence, said, "Based on current usage, there are enough stocks of illegal explosives.
Yglesias calls out Saxby Chambliss for what seems like the 912th nostalgic reference to the Confederacy this year alone. Loomis has some appropriately caustic commentary on the subject. On the.
I agree with Erik that the King's decision to back the coup has essentially ended the political crisis. Thaksin doesn't have a snowball's chance of finding his way back into power in the near term. I also think that Erik is right to worry about...
Make sure to read PTJ's analysis of the Pope's speech in Germany. The real target, according to PTJ, were Western secularists and non-Catholics. A selection:Hence the irony: Benedict wasn't attacking.
I'm with Mr. Trend; however you feel about A-Rod, this from Jason Giambi is absurd and uncalled for. The garbage about "getting the big hit" is just that; undoubtedly Jason.