Andrew Bacevich–West Pointer, conservative, father of KIA 1st Lt. Bacevich–criticizes the war in a way that should be persuasive to conservatives, including conservatives like me who initially supported the war for punitive reasons. Namely, it’s now clearly a waste of resources and a strategic error to continue on this course. It’s important not to continue [...]
Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category
Bacevich on Iraq
Posted in al qaeda, Bacevich, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, Iraq, Petraeus, strategy, surge, Terrorism on 8 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Moderate” Muslims
Posted in Albania, Christianity, jihad, kosovo, Muslims, Serbia, Terrorism on 1 Mar 2008 | 1 Comment »
This video is one of many: Albanian “moderate” Muslims destroying a Serbian church in Kosovo. How much more of a crime against humanity is it for a Church, where the Sacred Body of Christ resides, to be destroyed compared to a secular state’s embassy? I support neither act of lawlessness, of course, but the West’s [...]
Kosovo Today…. Who Will Be On the “Chopping Block” Tomorrow?
Posted in Albania, foreign policy, islam, kosovo, Orthodoxy, Serbia, Terrorism on 20 Feb 2008 | 7 Comments »
I love this map. Events far away in Kosovo implicate a very practical question: Do we want countries and their borders to be up for grabs every time one of their ethnic minority groups resorts to terrorism? Or do we want, instead, to encourage all nations, even nations that are commited like most will be to remaining an “ethnic state” [...]
Pakistan and Reality
Posted in Bhutto, foreign policy, Neoconservatism, Pakistan, Terrorism on 29 Dec 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew McCarthy reminds us why Pakistan is messed up, that feel-good slogans about democracy miss the point, and the Bhutto assassination is merely business-as-usual. Auster notes that our language in dealing with atrocity is impoverished by the logic of liberalism, which does not like to call evildoers evil. Ace explains the fundamental contradiction of Democratic [...]
Nutcase or Prophet?
Posted in Immigration, Terrorism, Tom Tancredo on 14 Nov 2007 | 20 Comments »
Tom Tancredo, my favorite dark horse candidate for president, has a controversial new ad that suggests our continued tolerance of lax border security and illegal immigration will culminate in Islamic terrorist attacks. It ominously features a hooded figure who leaves a suitcase bomb at a shopping mall. A friend notes that, “This guy looks like [...]
A Less Aggressive Anti-Terrorism Policy
Posted in al qaeda, Terrorism, Yemen on 26 Oct 2007 | 5 Comments »
We’re often told by the Democrats running for President that to fight al Qaeda first we must quit making mistakes. And these mistakes include unilateralism, the Iraq War, expedited trials in GITMO, the very existence of the GITMO detention facility, harsh interrogation techniques, and generally treating al Qaeda like a military threat rather than a [...]
A Sense of Proportion
Posted in Election, Terrorism on 16 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Terrorism is deadly serious. But it is also more manageable than the threat posed by either Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia. It is, after all, a threat from a few tens of thousands of largely uneducated and relatively weak cadres. They don’t have nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, and all the rest. This allows a policy [...]
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