Is North Korea seriously contemplating a nuclear war?
Darned if I know. Michael Totten doesn’t know, either, nor does anyone except a few North Koreans (and maybe not even them). But he makes some interesting speculations here.
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Meanwhile, in North Korea…
…plans continue—or at the very least, nuke-rattling propaganda continues. North Korea has been on this path for many years, confounding at least three administrations which have had no idea what to do about it. I’ve never read an article on … Continue reading →
The MSM won the Iraq War
The propaganda war, that is. I’m actually somewhat stunned by the results of this recent Gallup poll about the war (taken in honor of the tenth anniversary of its start), but not necessarily in the way you might think. After … Continue reading →
Counting casualties
There’s a new study of the costs of the Iraq War. It got some publicity yesterday on memeorandum, among other places. Counting war casualties is almost always fraught with uncertainty and is one of the areas most ripe for exploitation … Continue reading →
RIP, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist
It’s amazing that Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist managed to live past the year 1944, much less live long enough to die in his bed at the age of ninety. A brave man and the last surviving member of the Valkyrie plot: … Continue reading →
The fight over the history of Vietnam
I haven’t yet read the book Triumph Forsaken, but it sounds like a fascinating so-called “revisionist” history of the Vietnam War. And this comment at the Amazon link treads familiar ground, does it not?: A key contributor to the downfall … Continue reading →
Now it can be told: Obama’s Afghan policy
Vali Nasr has written a book, a portion of which has been excerpted in Foreign Policy. His piece represents another curious effort to discredit Obama from the left, and is far more hard-hitting than Bill Keller’s. Nasr is a Tehran-born … Continue reading →
Revisiting Wallace and Jennings, 1987
Yesterday commenter “Lizzie” wrote: I remember watching the PBS “Ethics in America” episode where Charles Ogletree asked Peter Jennings & Mike Wallace what they would do if they were embedded with and the enemy, and they realized the enemy was … Continue reading →
What about those Roaring 20s?
James Lileks offers his take on the 1920s. As usual with Lileks, it’s both interesting and fun. It’s always kind of strange to imagine what is was like to live in a decade we’ve heard about but weren’t around for. … Continue reading →
Yes, Obama said “peace in our time”…
…but it’s not such a big deal, although my saying that may surprise you. First of all, let me state that I have disagreed, and continue to disagree, in the strongest possible terms with Obama’s actual foreign policy, which can … Continue reading →
RIP General Schwarzkopf
General Norman Schwarzkopf has died at the age of 78 of complications from pneumonia. Those of us who were around during the 1991 Gulf War remember him as a television personality explaining it all, and a man who was popular … Continue reading →
And in no surprise at all, Obama…
…nominates Massachusetts Democratic Senator John Kerry for the post of Secretary of State. I’ve written about this choice before (including earlier, when Kerry was being considered for Secretary of Defense). So I’ll just quote myself: …[T]his would be another example … Continue reading →