Pentagon
The Maskings of a Mosque
The folk who planned the mosque at the World Trade Center could not have expected but that their project would be much resented, not just in New York but across America. And so it happened: as soon as it became clear that the municipal elite, spearheaded by Mayor Bloomberg who hasn't a single democratic cell in his brain, would act as if a Muslim religious center in the very orbit of Ground Zero was an ordinary happening a groundswell of sensitive men and women -a large majority of Americans, actually- believe that it isn't. READ MORE >>
Hillary Clinton's Naïve, Muddled Approach to Development
Civilian Control? Surely, You Jest.
The principle of civilian control forms the foundation of the American system of civil-military relations, offering assurance that the nation’s very powerful armed forces and its very influential officer corps pose no danger to our democracy. That’s the theory at least, the one that gets printed in civics books and peddled to the plain folk out in Peoria. READ MORE >>
Losing Hearts and Minds: Development and Its Discontents
Americans Should Be Asked to Sacrifice for the War on Terrorism. But Sacrifice What?
The following query found its way into my in-box: Could you please tell me what "sacrifices" you think we should be making because we are at war? I told a friend about how I had seen you on TV saying that we are at war, but people aren't making sacrifices. So he asked me what sacrifices, and I couldn't give him an answer. Glad to oblige. Typically, this sort of question serves as a prelude to an appeal to restore the draft. Yet when it comes to sacrifice, there’s a more immediately available option. Hit Americans where it hurts: in their pocketbooks. READ MORE >>
Rand Paul's Crucible
Why Wikileaks Still Needs 'The New York Times'
All Silent on the Lefty Front
The New Vulnerability
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It By Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake (Ecco Press, 290 pp., $25.99) I. READ MORE >>
