Not entirely, but it looks like the Army presence there will be sharply reduced. Frankly, this is a bit overdue. There's no real compelling need to keep even skeletal forces in Germany. Although the article sounds a warning about the impact of this decision on NATO...
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Matt Duss noted some creepy White House rhetoric.
Chalk it up to incompetence; I was so very sad that we couldn't get tickets to the showing of Zhang Yimou's "Hero" at SIFF. Then I read the synopsis, discover.
What's the deal with the Tenet resignation? I don't know. Via Kevin Drum, Mark Kleinman has an interesting theory. I'd certainly like to believe that story, although it's probably too good to be true. In the past, I haven't cared too much about whether person X...
Media Matters takes apart Stephen F. Hayes argument that Bin Laden and Hussein had an operational relationship between 1990 and 2003. This one requires just a smidgeon of common sense..
Nick Kristof thinks that communism in China ended on the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It's just taken the Chinese fifteen years to notice. So when will political change.
A reader writes: In all seriousness--Saddam Hussein thumbed his nose at the U.S., and for the sake of our credibility as a world hegemon, the U.S. was forced to stop playing the game of brinkmanship with Saddam since he kept pushing the envelope further and...
What is it that irritates me about Mickey Kaus? Is it that his sixth-rate blog inexplicably gets first rate internet real estate? Is it that he sounds more like a.
Standing at the podium this morning, drinking my coffee, waiting to start my class. . . "Professor Farley," a student says. "Yes?" "I was wondering. . . My dad is.
Tacitus is concerned the the election of Kerry will end the peculiarly American quest for a democratic world. John Kerry thinks that stability may sometimes be more important than democracy. The sin that Kerry commits, apparently, is not to think this, but to say it. What...
I have fewer misgivings about Kerry than either Scott or Dave. Although I supported Clark at one point (and still support him for VP), I've always thought that Kerry would.
First substantive post!!! Matt is right. No sense in state ownership of liquor stores. It would be interesting to track the existence of public ownership on a state by state basis;.