Reasoned Comment on the Lebanese Crisis
Michael Young of Beirut’s Daily Star offers a helpful guide to the Lebanese crisis at Reason.com, “Can Anyone Fix Lebanon?: International aid can’t change the climate around Beirut.” Young doesn’t…
War, Peace, and Terrorism
The Surge “Strategy”
The January 11, 2006 Cato Podcast by Patrick Basham on President Bush’s “Surge ‘Strategy’” was quite insightful. (Click here and scroll down to January 11.) The situation is spiraling ever…
The Final Step in the Disastrous Implementation of a Disastrous Decision
And now, A Recipe for Being in the Middle of a Horrifying Civil War (one that, it should not be forgotten, was occasioned by the decision of this government to…
Debate on Foreign Policy at Federalist Society
But Where Are They Going? At the annual meeting of the Federalist Society last November I spoke/debated about the issue of “Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Uneasy Cousins?” (See the…
National Socialism Appraised Early On
David’s Medienkritik, which reports on media coverage in Germany, has done a signal service by making available an essay by S. Miles Bouton from The American Mercury, “Why Germany Endures…
Now Part of the Negative Side of the Execution
The execution of Saddam, which was, I think, a necessary step, has a very serious downside: it provides confirmation among the majority Sunni Arab population (and other Sunnis, as well)…
An Interesting Dispatch from Beirut
The Clear Message of Hezbollah’s Opponents Michael Totten’s Middle East Journal has an insightful essay posted from Beirut.
A Small Entry in the “Plus” Column
Saddam will finally hang from a rope. I’m against the death penalty in almost all cases, but a very few require it. Let’s hope that it helps to bring some…
A Muslim Voice Against Radical Political Islamism
Anwar Ibrahim: A Courageous Voice for Liberty My colleagues are very pleased to translate, publish, and widely disseminate throughout the Arabic world the writings of Anwar Ibrahim, a courgeous voice…
A Little Nebraska Realism
Senator Chuck Hagel in the Washington Post, “Leaving Iraq, Honorably.”