Commentary - America's Future

By Damir Marusic • Feb 04,2009

Category Error

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...

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

New evidence emerges of Nazi doctor who died in Cairo

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...

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Blagojevich makes his case on Letterman

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...

By Damir Marusic • Feb 04,2009

Defense Cuts and an Empire Stretched Thin

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...

By Daniel Kennelly • Feb 04,2009

The Taliban as Aliens

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...

By David Polansky • Feb 04,2009

I say, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing wrong

(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...