Zbig on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
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What Is Olmert Thinking?
Israeli troops ‘move into Gaza’ Another great success, like in Lebanon, where his actions greatly strengthened Hezbollah? An election pitch that he is the toughest opponent of terrorist rockets? Or…
Shockingly Disproportionate Responses and Peaceful Alternatives
“Olmert: Gaza operation may ‘continue for some time‘,” CNN Maybe it’s time for the Israeli government to think about freeing trading relations, so goods and services could cross the borders,…
We Have Our Work Cut Out for Us….
“Stalin’s new status in Russia,” BBC: “…there is a much broader campaign to rehabilitate Stalin and it seems to be coming from the highest levels of government. The primary evidence…
A Visit to Malaysia
Bryan Caplan has an interesting take here. (Libertarian commentary from Malaysia, in English and Bahasa Melayu, can be found here.)
Some Good News from Bolivia
Bolivia halts US anti-drugs work Morales is, it seems, thoroughly corrupt and, overall, bad news for Bolivia. But few disastrous policies compare in destructiveness to the U.S. government’s “war on…
Putin’s Pets: All 142,000,000 of Them
And from today’s “Names & Faces” section of the Washington Post: On the furry heels of last week’s Putin Pet Update (Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got an adorable Siberian…
So This is the Foundation for the US Decision to Invade Iraq?
CNN: “Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story” Subsequent U.S. investigations into the intelligence failure around the claims found that German intelligence considered the defector “crazy” and “out of…