December 7, 2008

The Exquisite Difficulty of Preemption

Ever hear of an obscure German Chancellor by the name of Hitler?  Probably not.  He ruled for three years in the 1930s until he took an aggressive step too far, marching troops into the Rhineland against treaty commitments.  The Wehrma...

November 20, 2008

Iraq War: Right Time, Right Place, Right War

It needs to be said: It was smart to go to war in Iraq; it was courageous to go to war; but most of all -- even though there are few things as horrific as war -- it was necessary to go to war against Iraq.  Had we not gone to war against Iraq in...

October 11, 2008

Terrorism as a Career Option

Among the greatest underrated factors energizing the tides of history is boredom.  Boredom and peer pressure and the love of personal power and wealth, and all the other mundane and often ugly personal drives that have a force that can exceed th...

August 11, 2008

Obama's Neo-Isolationism

It's one of the ironies of modern "progressivism" that it looks to the past for so many of its policies: from the state intervention of the Roosevelt through Johnson years in economic policy, to a form of neo-isolationism in foreign policy ...