Archive for the 'War and Peace' Category

Post-Memorial Day questions: is the cause honorable, and is it still achievable?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Memorial Day: mourning the war dead, honoring the war dead

Monday, May 28th, 2007

“Supporting” the troops—or patronizing them?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Waging war: “total” and otherwise

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Defeat and defeatism

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Beyond a reasonable doubt: the standard of proof for pre-emptive war

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Harry Reid’s failure—to appreciate the larger consequences of his own words

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Negotiations and that big stick

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

How to talk to the enemy: first, understand it’s an enemy

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

The British sailors and the UN: international law and the enforcement problem

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Iran: the proud hostage-taking tradition and the rules of engagement

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Tony Blair, the West, and the big “easy”

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

The ivory tower: clean hands and leading by example

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Those were the days, my friend: Vietnam and Iraq protests, protesters, and nostalgia

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Dangerous Nation: another look at the Spanish American War (Part II)

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Dangerous Nation: another look at the Spanish-American War (Part I)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

War death statistics: dueling casualty figures, and how they are used

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Strategies for children (Part II): killing them

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Cold hubris: like Father (or Big Brother), the Left knows best

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Defeatism feels so good–for now

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Good grief: what about the Iraqi dead?

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Revising history: Vietnam (yes, again)

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Tet, Cronkite, opinion journalism, and a changing press: Part II (changing the course of history)

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Tet, Cronkite, opinion journalism, and a changing press: Part I (”to tell a conflicted people a higher truth”)

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Sherman and total war

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

About Me

Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon.
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