If You Must Be An Empire, Don’t Be An Incompetent Empire
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Jerry Pournelle, on foreign policy.
I was opposed to extending our Afghan adventure beyond the punishment of the Taliban for harboring out enemies; left to me we’d have been out as soon as Kabul fell to the anti-Taliban forces, with perhaps a billion dollars in bribe money squirreled away to be spent at the …
The Road to Fatima Gate
Michael Totten is one of the most intrepid reporters that you’ve never heard of. He (mostly) travels alone, he stays independent, he talks to the people on the street and he reports exactly what he sees and hears. He’s seemingly unafraid of Islamic radicals or anyone else.
An Inside Look at the SEAL Sensibility
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SEALs are capable of great violence, but that’s not what makes them truly special. Given two weeks of training and a bunch of rifles, any reasonably fit group of 16 athletes (the size of a SEAL platoon) can be trained to do harm. What distinguishes SEALs is that they can be thoughtful, disciplined and proportional in the use of force.
Mexicans Are Fed Up with the War on Drugs
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Not to mince words, the War on Drugs is completely evil, from alpha to omega. No one who believes in human liberty can coherently support it. That its prosecution should have resulted in death and human suffering on such a vast scale constitutes an indictment of every person who has conducted or supported this wicked undertaking from its outset.
Against Libya
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Victor Davis Hanson elucidates why conservatives oppose the “non-war” that President Obama is “not fighting” in Libya.
2) Approval: To start a third war in the Middle East, the president should have first gone to Congress, especially since he and Vice President Biden have compiled an entire corpus of past speeches, some quite incendiary, …
Re: Fort Hood's Shootings
I believe this post finishes our site’s libertarian conversion. We now occupy the same portion of the libertarian spectrum that LewRockwell.com occupies.
I don’t like America’s wars of aggression. The problem, as I see it, is that it can be hard to tell the difference between a war of aggression and a good preemptive defense. For …
Re: Fort Hood's Shootings
While I don’t like it when anyone gets hurt, on the other hand I find it difficult to work up sympathy for a bunch of people who are dead now because they promised an organization that in return for a minimum of $350 a week (as an enlisted) or $664 per week (as an officer), …
How Much Military Is Enough?
For the past two years, I’ve been slowly trying to figure out my opinion about U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. military. There are a lot of very bad people in the world. The thuggish mullahs of Iran and the even more thuggish dictator of North Korea jump immediately to mind. But one shouldn’t forget …
Notes from The Future in Iraq, Part 1
Michael J. Totten: The Future in Iraq, Part 1.
On the Jaysh al Mahdi, Moqtada al Sadr’s radical Mahdi Army militia:
Hajji Jasim, General Nasser’s guest from the office of the Mahdi Army’s “political wing,” sat next to Major Kareem on the couch. “Understand something,” he said to Captain Heil. “In the media, JAM only …
President Obama Bows to the King
This is simply unacceptable. The American President DOES NOT bow down to a king. Ever.
But that’s exactly what President Obama did at the G20. President Obama bowed to the Saudi King.
Video (it’s around the 53 second mark).