Per Instapundit, reknowned old school blogger Steven den Beste has guest-posted at Chicago Boyz about “Disproportionate Response”:
During the recent war in southern Lebanon, one of the many complaints leveled at Israel was that its response was “disproportionate”. Care to hear the reason why the complainers wanted Israel to limit itself to “proportionate” responses?
Well do ya’? Do you care to? Sure you do, and I’ll tell you why.
Those of you who remember Steven, will remember such classics as his essay on Jacksonian foreign policy, and the rather hefty strategic overview of the War in Iraq. You will also remember how long it took you to slog through every lovin’ minute of those posts, and how you thought you’d never make it. But you came away from those posts smarter and invigorated by your new knowledge, as if you had just sipped sweet ambrosia from the cup of Zeus himself.
Well this time you can get that feeling in a mere fourteen paragraphs! And some of those are only a sentence or two. And yet, still filled with that same measured, no-nonsense den Beste analysis you used to have read hundreds of paragraphs to get.
For the rest of you, if you don’t know who he is, read the “Disproportionate Response” piece first. After that you’ll be curious enough to slog through the annals of den Beste.
P.S. If your really curious, don’t miss these article recommended by the Captain of the USS Clueless himself.
Indeed, good articles:
http://denbeste.nu/cd_Articles/TheEssentialLibrary.shtml
Steven knows his stuff. I learn something every time I read him. It was at USS Clueless that I first read about “Transnational Progressivism” (which is really just socialism with a fancy name). And Ralph Peters, who is now enjoying some media attention, was noted by den Beste quite some time ago.
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