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Reclaiming the Dark Night
Alert: Spoilers below. Read on at your own peril.I have recently taken a break from blogging to pursue scholarship, and in turn took a break from scholarship to go see The Dark Night in our local multiplex. Nothing boosts one's credibility like a declaration against interests, so as a college... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
Obama Was Wrong About the Surge (But Right About Everything Else)
Today's New York Times reports that US troop casualties in Iraq have fallen to virtually the lowest point since hostilities there began. Only five US soldiers have been killed in combat since the beginning of July. This is welcome and heartening news, and combined with steadily decreasing... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago
Obama, Race, and History
In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer offers a denunciation of Obama's recent speech on race relations that is exemplary of its reception by many Americans. According to Krauthammer, the speech is a "brilliant fraud." This judgment hangs on two points. Firstly, Obama asserts a false... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Obama on Iraq
Of late there has been a concerted effort to cast Barack Obama's position on Iraq as inconsistent, naive, or politically cynical. Most recently Michael Gerson claimed that where John McCain won his party's nomination for resisting "overwhelming pressure," Obama will only win the Democratic... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Selling the Hundred-Year Sojourn
Though it has fallen somewhat below the political radar in recent weeks, the coming election will nonetheless be as much a referendum on the Iraq war as any other issue. The differences between the two remaining Democratic candidates on this score are negligible by comparison the position of the... Read more...
Published 6 months ago
Kosovo "Newborn"
The images now coming out of Pristina make for heady news. It is not every day that one witnesses the "birth" of a new nation, though the end of the Cold War set off a cascade of such events that does not seem to have run its course just yet. It was perhaps predictable that both the EU and the... Read more...
Published 6 months ago
The Fruits of Disengagement
Among the most under reported stories in the coverage of the Iraq crisis this week was that of the truce between rival Shi'ite militia leaders Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army, and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Together... Read more...
Published 11 months ago
Where Was Tet?
Much of the logic from apologists for the Bush strategy in Iraq has begun to resemble that of the protagonist in an old joke:A: Why are you banging your head against that wall?B: It keeps the snakes away.A: There are no snakes around here.B: See! It's working!Like the snake-warder who ignores the... Read more...
Published 11 months ago
A Tale of Two Occupations
The US occupation of Japan was obviously a major historical model upon which Bush administration officials drew in planning for the invasion of Iraq. The United States' perceived success in bringing postwar order and democracy to Japan stood testimony, so our leaders thought, to the possibility... Read more...
Published a year ago
No Suribachis Here
Last year saw the release of two films directed by Clint Eastwood devoted to the Battle of Iwo Jima. The first, "Flags of Our Fathers," told the story of the US servicemen whose raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi was captured in a famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Its companion, "Letters... Read more...
Published a year ago
The Korea Delusion
Recent statements by Bush administration officials to the effect that the President envisions a "Korea model" for the future trajectory of US involvement in Iraq add a new dimension to the vast edifice of distortion, delusion, and sheer lunacy that is the Bush Iraq policy. Previously one had to... Read more...
Published a year ago
Al Qaeda in al-Anbar
Proponents of the Bush administration's Iraq policy (such as Frederick Kagan) point repeatedly to one phenomenon as vindicating the whole past and future US strategy in Iraq. In recent months a swell of opposition to Al Qaeda has arisen among the predominately Sunni tribes of Anbar Province.... Read more...
Published a year ago
