Sonny writes, …yeah, sure. And, I think Israel actually is trying to achieve certain strategic gains. So our disagreement is really one of policy, rather than worldview. However, he later...
Sometimes, you run across an essay that you wish you could’ve written, an essay you perhaps planned to write one day. You encounter it at first with a sense of...
On my “yet-to-be-read” shelf I have Team of Rivals, The Clash of Civilizations, and Jeffrey Goldberg’s* Prisoners. I have a feeling that they will be sitting there for a while....
Again, with a nod to Tyler Cowen, I present two excellent quotations I came across today. First one comes from the recently late Samuel Huntington’s magnificent Political Order in Changing...
David writes: That one is justified in responding when provoked, does not mean one should respond. As Brzezinski once grumbled, world politics is not a kindergarten. Military action is not...
Some thoughts for those reading the Sonny and Freddie imbroglio (the bloggers, not the Corleones): I see a bit of a problem not uncommon to the blogosphere of two serious...
