Carah Ong
Reclassifying the IRGC
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Weekend Blog Reading
Dan McCarthy, Richard B. Spencer, and Jim Antle — all of whom might be broadly perceived as paleocons-with-libertarian-sympathies — have started a foreign policy blog, Exit Strategies, and it’s a great read: I especially liked two posts by Spencer: ”Les Neocons,” and his riff on iraq and “Snakes on a Plane.” Daniel Larison, one of my favorite bloggers, takes [...]
US: Prison Central
Vineyardsaker has a provocative post on Ahmadinejad’s description of America as a “big prison.” He posts this chilling data (emphasis added): Incarcerations per 100,000 population (sample): 1014____Texas (in 1999) (governor George W. Bush) 1013____Louisiana (2001) 715_____United States of America (2001) 584_____Russian Federation 554_____Belarus 487_____Cuba 416_____Ukraine 402_____South Africa 388_____Singapore 267_____Namibia 253_____Tunisia 248_____Taiwan 210_____Poland 204_____Chile 194_____Iran 189_____Hong [...]
Robert A. Pape
Suicide Terrorism Caused by Occupation, Not Islam
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Steve Clemons
Still a Chance to Stop the Next War
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Robert Draper
Bush’s Biographer
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