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 Hezbollah is absurd. If Israel could have destroyed Hezbollah, it would have done so at some...
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.
Now that's the old-school Wrigley Field. But what's the deal with the game starting at 6? Of course, missing the first two innings worked out well, but...
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 that are still ongoing and adoption of a dangerous public doctrine of "preemptive" action that openly...
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.
The Soviet Navy emerged from World War II a tiny force, possessed of a few ancient battleships and numerous smaller, obsolete craft. Geography has not been kind to Russian maritime.
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 two are modest, and public schools actually outperform conservative Christian schools in many respects, and 2)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.
Make sure to read Kevin Baker's brilliant essay on the "stab in the back" myth. My favorite bit:The POW/MIA flags, with their black-and-white iconography of shame, now fly everywhere in.
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 a lucid manner. For analysis, see Jonathan. And E. J. Dionne notes that the Domino (or...
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.
Friday Cat Blogging... Frodo and Pip