Hi. Thank you to Steve Clemons for allowing me to guest blog on The Washington Note. I write about security, and will comment on any such issues that come up in the next week. I’ll also provide links to essays I’ve already written, because the same security topics come up again and again.
The parallel between Richard Nixon’s and George W. Bush’s second mandates has been noted before (failing war, divided society, calls for investigations) but an interesting dimension playing out is how popular culture is echoing the mood from that period. Hollywood, of course, never fails to join the political bandwagon during wartime.
We need a professional constabulary force to sustain stabilization operations in Iraq. The terrible events at Haditha have us all wishing that our forces were doing a better job in relating to the non-combatant majority in Iraq.
True to the balkanized nature of the blogosphere, a fascinating conversation on foreign policy has erupted, with little input from some of the most insightful foreign policy commentators.
As the illegal immigration issues swirls in the media, I have recently heard debate over whether or not American schools should provide education for the children of illegal immigrants. I find this astonishing. Education is the key to their futures and ours.
“Liberty is the price we have to pay for freedom,” quipped T-Bone Burnett as he started his Tuesday night [May 29] in-your-neocon-face show at DC’s 9:30 Club.
So, we shouldn’t worry too much when Iran threatens to suspends oil exports in case of economic sanctions, suggests Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She says: “I think something like 80 percent of Iran’s budget comes from oil revenue, and so obviously it would be a very serious problem for Iran if oil were disrupted.
On February 25, 1969, Lt. (j.g.) Bob Kerrey, a Navy SEAL, led a patrol to Thanh Phong, Vietnam, an action for which he won the Bronze Star. Nearly four decades later, that mission casts light on the current concern over what apparently happened in Haditha, Iraq, on November 19, 2005.
Last weekend President Bush returned to West Point to address the Class of 2006 and defend his foreign policy doctrine on the same podium he previewed it in 2002.
New revelations about massacres of civilians in Iraq are certainly not needed to confirm the abysmal failure of the “adventure in Iraq”, which is a euphemistic way of putting it since this whole thing is no less than a full-fledged colonial enterprise — indeed replaying the 1920s British one — that has set back the…
