No News is Good News

You can usually tell things are going well in Iraq when the media is silent; they have been for weeks, focusing their attention instead on the economy. As always, their silence on important matters is a few steps behind the eight ball. They said little of al Qaeda’s growing reign of terror when Bill Clinton [...]

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Some Recent Writings

I’m splitting my time here over at Takimag.com, where I’m writing most of my longer pieces. Here is a piece I wrote on why liberalism makes its adherents incapable of criticizing the stark failures of liberalism:  once liberalism is imbibed, a liberal cannot give appropriate consideration to non-liberal political good. A piece on Afghanistan and [...]

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Attempted Anbar Redux in Afghanistan

Interesting article about Marine operations in Afghanistan.  Veterans of the successful (for now) Sunni Awakening strategy are trying to recreate those results in Southern Afghanistan.  As in Iraq until very recently, locals fear to work with the US and Afghan troops because they are  “here today, gone tomorrow” leaving peasants to the tender mercies of [...]

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What’s On the Internets?

I’ve been a bit busy to write anything major. Here is something I wrote about why the war in Afghanistan faces the same strategic challenges as Iraq.  In other words, it’s a bit facile for Obama and others to propose a mere shift in resources without more.  Unfortunately, the posting got invaded by 9/11 Truthers. [...]

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