France Runs Out of Other People’s Money.
French President “shocked.” They always are.
Tag: foreign affairs
Hillary Tries the Chewbacca Defense
“We had dead Americans! What does it matter if what we said caused it wasn’t what caused it at all? We were too busy saving the people who died!”
African Official: Please Stop With the Aid Already, You’re Killing Us…
In Der Spiegel, a Kenyan economist named James Shikwati attempts the Herculean task of explaining economics to a journalist. Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop. SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty. Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If… Read More African Official: Please Stop With the Aid Already, You’re Killing Us…
Freedom of Speech and Trembling Honkies
Ace’s Twitter beatdown of Will Saletan is noteworthy for a couple of reasons: It’s a refreshing refutation of the notion that the aesthetic quality of the Muslim troll film is at all relevant. Saletan doesn’t really fight back very hard. I mean, he offers up a few tired equivocations. Poor Salman Rushdie is invoked. But by… Read More Freedom of Speech and Trembling Honkies
The Bad News Just Keeps Getting Worse: America’s Global Facepalm
First, Did the Libyan Mob that Killed Our Ambassador Sodomize him first? Second, Was there an IED attack on our Libyan Embassy months ago, to which the response by our administration was “Enh…”? Third, Did our Egyptian Ambassador disarm the Embassy’s Marine guards?
The Rage That Dare Not Speak its Name
Yesterday I said five, ten, twenty years. But terrorists are not so lazy as that. Now we have a dead ambassador and two trashed embassies, and the Atlantic has called for immediate discussion. On the short-term politics, one reason why people who have seen previous campaigns always insert, “Anything could happen, but…” when giving forecasts… Read More The Rage That Dare Not Speak its Name
All Debates About Foreign Affairs are Bunk, and None of This is Over.
Back in college, a wise professor told me that foreign policy debates in America are about the next election. This assertion, bluntly proven true over the past eleven years, rather dissuades me from having anything to say to mark the anniversary. All the old feelings return, the old anger, the old sadness, the old… Read More All Debates About Foreign Affairs are Bunk, and None of This is Over.
Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Missing Your Connecting Flight. Thoughtcrime *is* Missing Your Connecting Flight.
Sometimes, just for a giggle, I put myself in the mindset of someone who believed that when the government takes over an operation, said operation becomes more efficient and less fraught with petty tyrannies. I really try very hard to believe that people who work for the government operating according to a Hive instinct, and… Read More Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Missing Your Connecting Flight. Thoughtcrime *is* Missing Your Connecting Flight.
I say, we corral our troops out of Afghanistan and nuke the place from orbit…
…it’s the only way to be sure.
One of These War Crimes is Not Like the Other…
Nestled amid this provocative collection of rare photographs from Saipan (h/t: Ace) are two links also about the subject of the horrors of war: ‘Kids make stupid mistakes’: Rick Perry jumps to the defence of Marines who urinated on dead bodies in Afghanistan Syrian soldier ‘decapitated seven-month-old boy in front of his mother after finding… Read More One of These War Crimes is Not Like the Other…
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