You’ve probably noticed for yourself that whenever someone says “make no mistake,” there’s a high probability that whatever he or she says next is going to be dubious. If it was certain or near-certain before the speaker pointed it out,…
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Another Day That “Everyone Would Remember”
Transferred from exquisite Kodachrome 16 MM: VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.
Major Announcement from Prez
Any moment now. Have heard no rumors. Doesn’t he realize that I’m on a deadline? UPDATE OBL is dead.
Because peace in the Holy Land and peace on Earth are the same thing
For two reasons, I’ve been hanging fire on replying to Jerome Slater’s essay “The Jewish State Controversy: Can Zionism Be Reconciled With Justice to the Palestinians?” First, I’ve been expecting the essay or at least a substantial excerpt to appear…
Posted in War Tagged with: Arab Middle East, Arnon Soffer, Israel, One-State Solution, Two-State Solution, War
My further brave, brave stance on Libya
At Juan Cole’s joint, the good professor details what the Libya No-Fly Zone has accomplished in just a few days. He concludes: Pundits who want this whole thing to be over with in 7 days are being frankly silly. Those…
Posted in War Tagged with: 2012 Elections, Arab Middle East, Juan Cole, Libya, No Fly Zone, Odyssey Dawn, War
My Stand(s) on the Libyan Atrocity
By the light of my tallow candle, as I push hard on the pedals of my bicycle-powered generator, I bravely lash out at the world oil complex and its malign interference in the internal affairs of Libya. As for my…
Should Rumsfeld apologize?
Tom Ricks reflects on the American reaction to 9/11 – “Rumsfeld, America, and apologies” – and how his own sense of the world has changed: “I never expected to live in a country whose government officially embraced torture.” He points…
Inventing the World
Though information technology now pervades both the most advanced “military estate” via the so-called “Revolution in Military Affairs,” as well as every sphere of political and cultural life, it maintains within itself the same original principles of self-sabotage and self-superannuation.
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Featured, History, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, War Tagged with: Al Qaeda, Alan Turing, Blogosphere, Cyberwarfare, Globalization, GWF Hegel, Imperial Way Japan, Philosophy of Right, Revolution in Military Affairs, Russian Soviet Communism, Theory of the Internet, War, WikiLeaks
The Iraq Syndrome
Many on the right think President Obama’s Oval Office address last night should have credited “the Surge,” and they would have preferred thanks to his predecessor for taking and implementing a decision that Senator Obama and others fiercely criticized. The…
Contention(s) of the Day – Max Boot slanders America
[A]s many people have noted, the War on Terror is not a reflection of an Islam vs. the West clash; it is part of a clash within Islam pitting fanatical Islamists against the vast majority of the world’s 1.2 billion…