Marine Corps barracks bombing 25 years ago today. 241 dead, almost all USMC. 58 French paratroopers died the same way, on the same day.I don't ascribe to the bombing the importance that neoconservatives have accorded it; Al Qaeda et al would have discovered other "evidence"...
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The prospect of a McCain presidency is too awful even for Ken "Cakewalk in Iraq" Adelman to contemplate:Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment.When the economic crisis.
Kvetch, in this thread:Sometimes you have to break a couple hundred thousand eggs to make a delicious freedom frittata.Hogan:And sometimes after the eggs are broken, you realized you have no.
It’s difficult to exaggerate the degree to which Stephen Walt demolishes Josh Muravchik in their realism vs. neoconservatism exchange in the September National Interest. The prompt concerns which, of realism or neoconservatism, will best answer the threats that the United States will face in the...
RFS Pyotr Velikiy and his (my understanding is that Russians use the masculine in reference to naval vessels, but if anyone has clarification, please don't hesitate) entourage set sail for.
Yglesias:Meanwhile, if we launch a war with Russia — which would seem to be the point of busting out the analogy — then how are we going to find the.
Stephen Hayes is embarrassed and ashamed. No, not for that. Or that. No, not for that either. No, not really for any of the reasons that Stephen Hayes ought to be embarrassed and ashamed of himself; rather, he's ashamed that the United States has taken...
Yglesias:But foreign policy questions are McCain's passion, he's chosen to put them at the center of his campaign, and there's really nothing at all Burkean about McCain's take on them..
The Parag Khanna excerpt continues to produce some interesting discussion. Yglesias:In 1945-46 the U.S. economy completely dominated the world, contributing some absurdly high share of total output. Every other significant.
Silly Matt; if Musharraf really is like the Shah, won't it just give us the opportunity to demonstrate that, were it not for Jimmy Carter, a few well placed bombs would have forestalled the Revolution and saved Iran for... er, "democracy"?
Ed Kilgore makes an excellent point: If supporting the "culture of life" in one case in Florida requires an emergency congressional session, then perhaps when John Bolton's nomination for ambassador.