Tag Archives: Syria

Frank Miller’s Geostrategic Theory

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Lee

Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he’d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Military Matters | Tagged 1992, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, anti-Americanism, batman, comic books, Dark Knight, fascism, Frank Lovece, Frank Miller, geostrategy, Germany, Give Me Liberty, graphic novel, Hollywood, Holy Terror Batman, illustration, interview, Iran, Iraq war, Islamofascism, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, military geography, negative space, neoconservative, Newsday, Pearl Harbor, radio, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, social commentary, Syria, The Spirit, Turkey, Victor Davis Hanson | 17 Comments

The Tidal Empires of War

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Charles Roffey – Charles & Fred) Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged 1990s, army, Bashar al-Assad, Beirut, capitalism, Cedar Revolution, Charles Roffey, communism, Damascus, Eisenhower, Eisenhower Doctrine, Fenwick, Frederic Bastiat, free trade, globalization, imperialism, investment, Israel, Jihad Yazigi, Lebanon, Lenin, Leonard Wibberley, London, markets, Mediterranean, Michael Shermer, Middle East, military, nationalism, occupation, pacifism, Pat Buchanan, pregnant, secular, Shukri al-Kuwatli, Syria, Syrian, Tzipi Livni, United States, war, World War II | Leave a comment

What Does the Evidence Say… About Us?

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Question the timing! That old mantra from the halcyon days of 2002-4, when the Left would be mocked by the Right for wondering about the suspicious timing of terror alerts, is universally applicable to the Presidency. In the case of … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Media | Tagged Media, moon bats, North Korea, Syria | Leave a comment

Breaking: CIA Tells Us Something We Already Knew

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Joshua Foust

For at least a decade, there has been a running joke in the world of intelligence contractors that perhaps 90% of what the CIA does could be done for 1/10 the cost and 10x the effective accuracy by private, open-source … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged CIA, Collaboration, North Korea, nuclear, Syria, WMD | 5 Comments

Beating the Tide

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Lee

The military is praising Syria and Saudi Arabia for their efforts to restrict the flow of insurgent reinforcements into Iraq: “In early 2007, 110 foreigners were coming into Iraq from Syria every month. That is now reduced to 40 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged , insurgents, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, war | Leave a comment

My Eyes Opened

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Lance

Late in the eighties I was taking a course in American history after 1945. One of my fellow students was a bright, interesting Palestinian. Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Lance's Page | Tagged 1945, 1948, academia, acquaintances, American history, Arab Israeli conflict, Arabs, atrocities, authority, brutality, CAIR, class period, class sympathies, Dinosaur Jr., Domestic Politics, dominance, Education, embarrassment, fanaticism, genocide, good faith, Hank Williams Sr., Hezbollah, Hussein Massawi, IDF, international conflict, intifada, islam, islamism, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli national suicide, Israelis, Lebanese, Lebanon, Middle East, monologues, Muslims, National Defense, national resistance, nationalism, negotiations, Omar Ahmad, Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinians, PLO, PLO executive committee, religion, students, Syria, Syrians, tactics, The Dixie Chicks, The Minutemen, The Rolling Stones, The Volcano Suns, Zahir Muhsein, zionism | 3 Comments