One of the most famous thought-experiments in economics is Bastiat‘s story of the broken window, which the French economist used to argue against the common belief that destruction stimulates economic activity. In Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt uses the broken window to argue against the belief that war stimulates economic activity. What follows is [...]
The original version of my article on neocon bloviator-in-chief Richard Perle appeared last week on Antiwar.com. We reprint the text here — and also add a postscript on Perle’s abrupt resignation from the Defense Policy Board, and his simultaneous threat to sue anyone and everyone who so much as looks at him the wrong way. [...]
Following my article reporting the death of Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski on Antiwar.com yesterday, new aspects of the story are surfacing, some of which I have linked to near the end of this post. The charred bodies of all those killed have finally been found, notwithstanding the fact that the plane crashed in high mountains [...]
Abuse of death is nothing new in the Balkans or, indeed, the Empire. It was perhaps too much to expect that Boris Trajkovski’s tragic end in the Herzegovina mountains would be spared the same fate. Antiwar.com’s resident Macedonia expert Chris Deliso has a great piece on his site Balkanalysis, examining the misleading and manipulative eulogizing [...]
You do understand that Albright did lie, innocent people did (and continue to) die, the Clinton administration and NATO did sex-up intelligence about Yugoslavia and did misrepresent Milosevic as the new Hitler, and that our Balkan adventure is indeed a quagmire, don’t you? You fail at sarcasm but succeed wildly at irony.
Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania’s DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I’ve noticed, opens with a brief “trust me, I’ve hung with some bad mofos” hook to reel the Tom Clancy devotees in. It then proceeds to explain how Pacepa, under [...]
