Following up on Josh Marshall's take, Jim Henley notes:And it’s also true that the US and its Iraqi allies chose to try Saddam on one of his relatively minor crimes because if they did so they could get him safely hung before they had to try...
Enjoy sharing the hotseat with Augusto Pinochet. In fairness, you made the General look like a rank amateur.... to pre-empt misunderstanding, I don't think his ouster was worth the bones.
Chris Bray at Historiblogography urges us to celebrate December 29 as C.D. Alston Day, in honor of the Air Force Brigadier General who predicted confidently one year ago that Iraqi.
Read Loomis' nice essay on Daniel Webster. Webster is among the most forgotten of the forgotten legislative titans of the 19th century, although I think that, outside of Lexington, even Henry Clay isn't getting a lot of press these days. It's certainly interesting to think about...
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
In the Somalia comment section below, Eric Martin writes:Now, do I think that fear of further inflaming Muslim opinion through our actions in the Horn should be our overriding and.
What better way to spend a slow blogging season than by posting some favorite hatchet jobs? In comments to yesterday's post, many people are bringing up Matt Taibbi's classic review of The World Consists of Cabdrivers Who Repeat the Same DLC Cliches I've Written Many Times,...
Again, I say: Sebelius for VP![Link Fixed.]
Eric Martin links to Fred Kaplan's nice illustration of how reduced recruiting standards matter for military performance:The pattern is clear: The higher the score on the aptitude test, the better.
LGM, on the other hand, will happily endorse the first candidate to buy a Blogad on our site.Not really, but I wish someone would buy a damn Blogad. We've been dry for months...
I have to admit that I'm a little puzzled by Matt's dudgeon regarding the Ethiopia-Somalia war. The situation in Somalia has, for the last fifteen years, been just about as.
As noted by many commenters, the inevitable meltdown as Althouse refuses to acknowledge the plain meaning of her remarks or suggest another coherent one has occurred [no link because she.