A marine writes to Andrew Sullivan (in part): …I recalled our training on Iraqi culture prior to our deployment. A professor from Georgetown University had warned us (mostly college educated...
The Times has a grisly must-read today about Dr. Aribert Heim, an infamous Nazi war criminal who performed unspeakable experiments on Jewish prisoners and committed atrocities beyond any sane man’s...
The Chicago Trib has the story: “I’ve been wanting to be on your show in the worst way for the longest time,” Blagojevich told Letterman at the start of his...
Dov Zakheim repeats Bob Kagan’s incorrect assertion that Obama is about to cut the DoD budget. As I pointed out yesterday, Congressional Quarterly is claiming (via Wired, I don’t have a...
I can understand why Daniel Larison is outraged at Ralph Peters’ column arguing that as a mental exercise we ought to think of Taliban as being alien life forms. Given...
(UPDATE: go read Damir on this first) Over at Shadow Gov’t, my friend Christian Brose has a pair of bracing posts on reshaping our foreign service to more accurately reflect...
