While visiting my mom, I took in a fine talk on U.S. dilemmas in the Mideast by Retired Ambassador William A. Rugh. The talk was sponsored by a local peace group and was remarkable to me for the use Rugh made of Robert A. Pape’s book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Read More
On Sept. 12, 1939, John Colville, a junior secretary in the British Foreign Office, wrote in his diary that there was “a feeling of autumn in the air.” World War II was less than two weeks old. “It was unpleasantly chilly as I sat on the balcony in my dressing-gown reading in the papers that Read More
Commenter Rowan Berkeley has accused me of “Jewish Orientalism.” It’s not the first time; my friend Dan Swanson (author James North) has accused me of orientalism on a number of occasions. What do I cop to:
I think there’s a clash of cultures. Western culture (which I believe is based on Judaeo-Christian teachings) Read More
In the last few days it’s come home to me (a little late!) that we are in a deepening crisis. Have to hand it to you left wing alarmists, you were way ahead of me. My late wake-up call was Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the Nuke-Iran option, followed by Larry Wilkerson’s comment at the Read More
I should feel elated. The skinny, cave-dwelling polygamist is on the run, and our bombing campaign-which I supported-has temporarily prevailed. Instead, I feel a curious letdown. It’s reminiscent of situations where I’ve been at the bedside of deathly ill relatives, giving my all as they slid downhill, only to find, when they showed signs of Read More
