Drunks & Foreign Aid on Fox News
Fox News ran a two-part report on foreign aid this week. Fox's John Roberts asked me last week about a couple foreign aid "success stories." I doubted the success claims but I commented that there had been so many programs over the years, that..... Well, here's the...
Obama’s Pet Uzbek Dictator Hasn’t Kept His Promises
Remember how the United States has been cozying back up to the dictatorship in Uzbekistan for the sake of alternative supply routes to occupying forces in Afghanistan? And remember how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Uzbekistan in October, largely for the...
Journey to the Center of an Islamophobe’s Mind
I don't know how my arcane little post on Frank Gaffney's World War I theories launched a discussion of Shariah law, bikinis, "executive gays," and Ted Nugent, but Eric Dondero dropped in, so… Dondero is raving about, among other things, a county in Maryland providing...
No Apology or Justice for US Role in El Mozote Massacre
The Salvadoran government this week officially apologized and asked for forgiveness for the El Mozote massacre in 1981, one of the worst atrocities in their history that happened during their civil war. In December of that year, government forces descended into the...
Peaceful, Market Alternatives to the Drug War?
I seemed to have missed this last week: The presidents of the Latin American countries attending the eighth summit meeting of the Tuxtla System for Dialogue approved a formal request to the United States and other drug consuming countries that they curb drug...
‘Misguided and Extreme Views’ on Israel
Last week I noted in a post that according to "a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council" the "so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel" - essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area - is like no man's land. In 2010, 40...
Frank Gaffney Slams Noted Libertarian Isolationists Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
I missed this Frank Gaffney column from a couple of weeks ago: I had an unsettling flashback last week listening to two of the Republican presidential candidates talk about foreign policy. Representative Ron Paul of Texas and former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman espoused...
Newt Gingrich and Dave Weigel Will Bomb Knowledge Back to the Stone Age
SEE UPDATE BELOW. Dave Weigel is a history buff: [Newt Gingrich's] last full-on grapple with Romney came when the former governor attacked him, in a sort of more-in-sorrow-than-anger way, for saying that the Palestinians were an "invented people." That, said Romney,...
Mission in Afghanistan Failing on Every Front
This is a commendable job by al Jazeera journalist Sami Zeidan interviewing U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the NATO Training Mission William Caldwell. The Lt. Gen. stumbled and bumbled over the embarrassing hard facts Zeidan puts forth, and had no...
