Hot Links!
By Random linkage in lieu of substantive blogging:
- Stephen Biddle on Afghanistan
- How did Admiral Motti rise to that rank?
- Ethiopia-Eritrea proxy war in Somalia.
- Teaching history in Texas public schools is, well, ahistorical.
- Trend should make this Latin America roundup a regular feature.
- Stephen Walt encapsulates the Reagan Revolution:
One of the great triumphs of Reagan-era conservatism was to convince Americans that paying taxes so that the government could spend the money at home was foolish and wrong, but paying taxes so that the government could spend the money defending other people around the world was patriotic. Ever since Reagan, in short, neoconservatives supported paying taxes to promote a U.S.-dominated world order, while denouncing anyone who wanted to spend the money on roads, bridges, schools, parks, and health care for Americans as a “tax and spend liberal.”