Every day the attempts to justify the Af-Pak war reach new heights of creativity. Today we have an essay in The New Yorker by Steve Coll, the first in a series explaining that we must do something or other (he never explains what) for the sake of civilization. Also, Coll never describes the consequences of our …
A new reason to kill thousands of people? Stay tuned for the answer! Read More »
Today’s must-read article about the war: “The Case for Afghanistan: Strategic Considerations“, Joshua Foust, Registan, 27 August 2009. The second in this series (the first was discussed here); it deserves to be read in full. Please do so, as the Af-pak war may have vast effects on the US and the world. Here are Foust’s …
Foust describes the case for our war in Afghanistan Read More »
This post examines one of the mechanisms maintaining support for the war.  Someone has a vision of a horrible possible future. He believes this so important that we must devote vast resources to prevention, with… no thought of its probability of occurrence, no effort to calculate the costs in money and blood of his recommendations, no effort to evaluate …
We must stay in Afghanistan to prevent atomic war! Read More »
This is the 4th post in a series about some ways in which our Long War are changing us. How will the Long War affect America? Will it make us stronger or weaker? Crazy? Unleash our dark side? Why we fight. Causes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Killing prisoners, our new tactic in the …
Bloodlust – a natural by-product of a long war? Read More »
In this complex and rapidly changing era, there is only one source of insight we can rely upon: Fred. If all donations now mailed to the Project for a New American Security we instead sent to Fred, it would be a far better world. “Baez, Coyne, and Reed – All the Answers You’ll Ever Need“, Fred …
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