The Strategy of Pure Destructionism
Part of a Terrorist Strategy The flight of the Iraqi middle classes (New York Times; requires simple registration), which means among other things people with education and a more worldly…
War, Peace, and Terrorism
The Bush Record
My colleagues Tim Lynch and Gene Healy do a remarkable job of bringing to light and criticizing the Bush administration’s grab for unlimited power in their paper, “Power Surge: The…
The Future of Iraq
I have an essay in the latest issue of Reason magazine on the future of Iraq, along with Michael Young and Leon Hadar.
First They Came for the Brothels….
The Pascha brothel in the city of Cologne has removed from its advertising the flags of two Middle Eastern states (Saudi Arabia and Iran) in response to threats of violence….
Against the Imperial Presidency
New Presidential Headgear, Courtesy of the Habsburgs My colleague Gene Healy has a hard-hitting critique (“The Imperial Presidency and the War on Terror“) of the Bush administration’s view of its…
A Very Worrisome Consideration
The Iraqi blogger Omar, whom I met in Baghdad last year, has a disturbing analysis of the bombing last week of the Buratha mosque in Baghdad.
Iran War on the Horizon?
I’m watching Seymour Hersh on CNN discussing the possibility of a war against the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran. His most recent essay in the New Yorker bears reading. Some of…
I Wonder If That Has Something to Do With It?
Here are the headline and the first paragraph from the BBC’s coverage: Suicide bomber hits Afghan base A suicide car bomber has attacked an Italian peacekeeper base in the Afghan…
Opinion Roundup on Iraq
Reason.com has a roundup of opinion on the Iraq war; I contributed one of the comments. (I have a rather longer piece on the topic coming out soon in Reason.)
Lamp of Liberty
My friend Jonathan Rauch has published in the National Journal an essay on the Lamp of Liberty, the Arabic libertarian web site, “In Arabic, ‘Internet’ Means ‘Freedom’.” (I suspect that…