Author: BooMan

Now Syria is the Problem

Unrest in Syria is causing Washington to reassess its approach to the Assad regime in Damascus. Of course, Joe Lieberman has chimed in, and he has the chutzpah to try to tell us that the Arab world is clamoring for us to impose...

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Meanwhile, In Japan

Here’s some appalling tsunami footage. It’s a little under six minutes of footage. The last minute or so appears to show a lot of humans in the water. I wonder if jishuku is consistent with creating the kind of...

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I Don’t Recognize Juan Cole’s Left

The strange thing about Juan Cole’s defense of the Libyan intervention is that he didn’t touch on any of my objections at all. I’m not a pacifist; I am not an anti-imperialist absolutist, and I never said that...

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Don’t Get Your History from Fred Hiatt

Before there was terrorism, or fascism, or communism, this country was dedicated to the proposition that monarchies are illegitimate and inherently tyrannical. Since then, monarchies have mostly disappeared in the West and Far...

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Don’t Call Them the Brat Pack

I actually watched St. Elmo’s Fire a month or so ago. I wanted to set the entire cast on fire, they were so annoying. No wonder they called them the Brat Pack. It was a truly self-indulgent godawful movie, and not in a...

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