Tag Archives: war

War, Peace, and Reconciliation

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Keith_Indy

Some thoughts from Hal Moore on war, peace, and reconciliation. When the blood of any war soaks your clothes and covers your hands, and soldiers die in your arms, every breath forever more becomes an appeal for a greater peace, … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Keith's Page, Military Matters | Tagged Hal Moore, LZ X-Ray, peace, reconciliation, Vietnam, war | Leave a comment

More Like This Please

Posted on April 21, 2008 by MichaelW

I was pleasantly surprised, and mildly irritated, to see that Condi Rice basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward while she was in Baghdad recently (via: Instapundit): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged Condi Rice, GWOT, Iran, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, rhetoric, Terrorism, terrorist cowards, war | 14 Comments

This Generation’s Ernie Pyle

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Lance

The NEW YORK POST reviews Michael Yon’s new book.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Books, Iraq, Michael Yon, war | Leave a comment

What Is ASHC?

Posted on April 17, 2008 by MichaelW

There seems to be some confusion on the part of some as to exactly what sort of place ASHC is: I was rather surprised to read this dubious and scornful appraisal of Michael Yon’s Wallstreet Journal editorial at A Second … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Philosophy | Tagged anti-war, blogging, conservative, foreign policy, Iraq, liberal, libertarian, political views, war | 15 Comments

Poll Shows Swing in Mood

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Keith_Indy

Majority now believe U.S. effort in Iraq will succeed, 53-39 H/T Hot Air Of course, I don’t believe one should govern based on polling data. If something is the right thing to do, you should do it. What this does … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Iraq, Pew, poll, public opinion, Success, war | 4 Comments

JD Johannes Speaks With Fausta

Posted on February 22, 2008 by MichaelW

Today at 11AM Eastern on Blogtalk Radio.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Blogtalk Radio, Fausta, independent reporter, interview, Iraq, JD Johannes, Marines, Outside the Wire, war | 1 Comment

Assasination and Democracy

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Lance

The Bayesian Heresy tipped me to a profile of economist Ben Olken, who has published a couple of papers on the effect of political leaders on economic and political development: Olken wonders whether economic development and the path to democratization … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental economics, Domestic Politics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, social science | Tagged assasination, autcracy, democracy, economic development, political economy, social science, war | Leave a comment

McCain Speaks to Europe

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Lee

photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it’s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Afghanistan, Bush, Clinton, Europe, foreign policy, Germany, global warming, interview, Iraq, John McCain, Kyoto, McCain, multilateralism, negotiation, Obama, unilateralism, war | Leave a comment

Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Lee

photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: “Globalization implies subjugation of the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Economics, History, Lee's Page | Tagged 1918, Berlin, capitalism, communism, Economics, Europe, facism, French, History, Kraft durch Freude, market, materialism, money, noneconomic, Peter Drucker, Philosophy, progress, socialism, Sweden, Thomas Barnett, war, World War I, World War II | 5 Comments

Love in a Foreign War

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Lee

(photo: trish brunner | blog) This morning I stumbled into the story from last year of James and Lena Ahearn. James, the American officer, Lena the Iraqi woman who was apparently the first war bride in Iraq in 2003. They’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Military Matters | Tagged , American, Baghdad, Green Zone, interracial marriage, Iraq, James Michael Ahearn, James Michener, Lena Ahearn, love, lovers, married, novel, Tales of the South Pacific, war, women | Leave a comment

Beachamp revealed

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Lance

By all accounts Scott Beauchamp has tried to redeem himself in the eyes of his unit. However, when this story came to a head and the military investigated him, he seems to have been held in rather low regard. Bob … Continue reading →

Posted in Lance's Page, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged AWOL, Iraq, Scott Beauchamp, The New Republic, war | 4 Comments

Al Qaeda Casualties

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Lee

Here’s an interesting figure from 2007 operations in Iraq: “Military operations against al Qaeda in Iraq resulted in the capture of 8,800 militants, while 2,400 were killed.”

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, Iraq, militants, Terrorism, war | Leave a comment

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

The Surrender Movement Surrenders

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Lee

Antiwar groups are dropping their effort to cut off funding for the Iraq war. They’ve decided to concentrate instead on preventing the president from negotiating a long term defense treaty with the Iraqi government. I suppose the thinking is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged antiwar, Bush, Iraq, war | 2 Comments

Top Al Qaeda Operative Nabbed In Iraq, and Other Good News

Posted on December 28, 2007 by MichaelW

Bill Roggio has the scoop at Long War Journal: The Iraqi Army claimed to have captured the minister of defense of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s political front organization. Ahmed Turki Abbas was captured after being wounded in … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged Abu Abdullah, Ahmed Turki Abbas, al Qaeda, Awakening Councils, captured, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq, killed, Muhammad Sulayman Shunaythir al-Zubai, war | Leave a comment

â€œSmall-Government Libertarianâ€

Posted on August 7, 2006 by MichaelW

I seem to have caused some confusion with my previous post, â€œPutting the Question to the Bishop,â€ by an inartful use of the term â€œsmall-government libertarian.â€ The more I think about, the clearer it becomes to me that this term … Continue reading →

Posted in Author Pages, Domestic Politics, MichaelW's Page | Tagged abortion, anarchism, anarchist, anti-gay marriage, anti-war left, arguments, battleground, big government, capitalism, citizenship, congress, defense, Democratic Party, Democrats, elections, electorate, executive branch, fiscal policy, Friedrich Hayek, homosexual rights, independent voters, Iraq, Iraq war, Libertarianism, Milton Friedman, minarchism, minarchist, Murray Rothbard, national security, netroots, netroots voters, political candidates, political partiers, president, pro-choice, pro-life, rationalism, Republicans, Robert Nozick, small government electorate, small-government libertarian, social politics, two party system, war | 22 Comments

Me, Greg, Andrew and the two Glenn’s

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Lance

(Listening notes: Magnetic Fields, Husker Du, Queen, Soft Cell, Indigo Girls, The Smithâ€™s, REM, Pet Shop Boys, B-52â€™s, Scissor Sisters. A homage to Andrew Sullivan of sorts.)

I am here to step into the breach and defend Glenn Reynolds from two people I admire a lot. Continue reading →

Posted in Lance's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged ACLU, analysis, Andrew Sullivan, Ann Coulter, asymmetry, B-52â€™s, Belgravia, Belgravia Dispatch, Blairism, commissars, Dave Weigel, David Horowitz, decorative politics, detainees, doctrinaire libertarian, extremism, finance industry, fisking, George W. Bush, Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Reynolds, government sponsored illegality, Husker Du, independent integrity, Indigo Girls, Iraq, Israel, Law, libertarian, Libertarianism, lies, Magnetic Fields, Malkinesque, Malkinesque blogosphere, Michelle Malkin, New York Times, opinions, Pet Shop Boys, photographer, political distortion, Queen, R.E.M., Reason Magazine, Republican, Republican Party, right-wing, Rocco DiPippo, Scissor Sisters, Soft Cell, Tammy Bruce, Terri Schiavo, The Smiths, Tony Blair, torture, Travel Section murder plot, war | 2 Comments

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