I wouldn’t forbid you from taking the same position as Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Samantha Power and Paul Wolfowitz. We have freedom here. And maybe Obama will really wrap this up in a few days, and there will be no truly nasty unintended consequences, and only basically better-than-Gaddafi guys will be in power in Libya ever . . . → Read More: Against Our War In Libya

(cross-posted @TAC)

As I write in snow-covered Westchester, New York fires are breaking out in perhaps a half dozen National Democratic Party headquarters in Egypt. Unfortunately, most of our media and commentators are woefully ignorant the state of Egypt. But that doesn’t stop them from picking a new leader and rewriting their constitution. Here is Jackson Diehl . . . → Read More: The Egypt We Paid For

Another commentator told me that the propaganda of one age innoculates you against the same in another. Let’s listen to the anvil-chorus that beats on constantly about the evils of isolationism, disarmament, and peace. Consider this argument from 1917′s wag-of-war George Herron, in The Menace of Peace. Don’t read the whole book, but skim it.

It is notable . . . → Read More: The Very Old Case Against Peace

David Brooks mentions that Iraq is making progress, that the structure of that nation is sound, and that the laws are impressive. Though of course he contradicts himself when he mentions that it is one of the most corrupt governments on earth. How do we know progress is coming to Iraq.

According to the Brookings Institution’s . . . → Read More: No Blood for Vodafone

Professor Alan J. Kuperman of the University of Texas has done some interesting work studying the effect of America’s interventionism and the “emerging norm” that outside nations have a “Responsibility to Protect” citizens from their own government when that state becomes abusive. Kuperman’s paper “Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect” for the Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and . . . → Read More: The Moral Hazard of Intervention