Dan Drezner (cursed be his name) aptly sums up my thinking on international law and Iraq. First, I think he's quite right to call out John Quiggin on the latter's implication that international law has caused the reduction in wars since 1945:Quiggin is factually correct...
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More squirrel bait regarding the American war in Vietnam, today from Peter Rodman, whose ongoing devotion to Henry Kissinger -- his first boss -- is touching if nothing else:Military historians.
The foreign policy community debate has led down some pretty interesting avenues, one of them being an interrogation of the idea that the United States has "vital interests". The short.
Good news from Iraq! Only a few more Friedman Units to go!The polarization of communities is most evident in Baghdad, where the Shia are a clear majority in more than half of all neighborhoods and Sunni areas have become surrounded by predominately Shia districts. Where...
I suppose it's comforting to see the President continues to know fuck-all about the American war in Vietnam.On Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, Bush will tell members of the Veterans.
...or so Peter Baker would have you believe. That's not quite fair to Baker, but it's not far off, either. Baker allows that slashed budgets and "unforeseen" events have wounded.
I'll have a couple of longer comments on the "foreign policy community" scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald:During the latest contretemps, Greenwald wrote:The Number One Rule of the bi-partisan Foreign Policy Community is that America...
The Yazidi are a small sect of Kurdish speakers whose religion predates Islam and Christianity. Their holiest city is Mosul. Adherents, who number less than a million (and probably considerably.
More evidence of Bush's "great neo-conservative mind" in action:On April 17 [2002], Mr. Bush traveled to the Virginia Military Institute, where Gen. George C. Marshall trained a century ago. “Marshall.
This post by Greg Djerejian on the now legendary O'Hanlon/Pollack op-ed is really indispensable; Greg takes them to task on their lack of hard evidence, reliance on impression, and apparent belief that the Iraq they saw on tour is representative of Iraq as a whole....
The Times:The death of a marine in western Iraq brought the American military death toll to 74 so far in July, on course to be the lowest monthly figure this.
I think Matt retreats too quickly from Chait and Douthat here....Speculation about motives can be problematic, first because, in the absence of any written or spoken evidence, it's always going.