On occasion, from friends and family I receive a copy of an email from Sgt Howard C. Wright (USMC) regarding Starbucks: "Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they […]
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Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? – The Postman
How Many Divisions Does the Pope Have?
How Many Divisions Does the Pope Have? by Robert Higgs Joseph Stalin is famously said to have asked an adviser, dismissively, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” Had the […]
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Coexisting with a Rising China?
Coexisting with a Rising China? by Dr. Ivan Eland The Bush administration is often guilty of running a reckless, overly militaristic foreign policy but deserves qualified praise for its recent […]
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Another Commission Recommends Bureaucratic Buffet to Fix U.S. Intelligence
Another Commission Recommends Bureaucratic Buffet to Fix U.S. Intelligence by Dr. Ivan Eland President Bush insists that he is already implementing recommendations from the officious smorgasbord of the presidential commission […]
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Three Strikes for Empire
Three Strikes for Empire by Dr. Ivan Eland Three seemingly unrelated recent events highlight the imperial nature of the Bush administration’s foreign policy: U.S. F-16 sales to Pakistan, the creation […]
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Morning in the Islamic World?
Morning in the Islamic World? by Dr. Ivan Eland President Bush has been crowing about how the policies of his administration are responsible for “democratic” developments in the Islamic world, […]
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Plus Ça Change . . . A Template for the U.S. War in Iraq
Plus Ça Change . . . A Template for the U.S. War in Iraq by Robert Higgs The composition of a coherent historical narrative is no easy task. Fortunately, the […]
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George W. Bush Fails to Learn from Jimmy Carter’s Naive Human Rights Policy
George W. Bush Fails to Learn from Jimmy Carter's Naive Human Rights Policy by Dr. Ivan Eland In trying to find a rhetorical justification for invading the sovereign nation of […]
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Saber Rattling Against Syria
Saber Rattling Against Syria by Dr. Ivan Eland According to The New York Times, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that the suicide killers of Rafik Hariri, the former […]
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Iraq: Purple or Still Black and Blue?
Iraq: Purple or Still Black and Blue? by Dr. Ivan Eland In the rich of tradition of “inside the beltway” political gimmicks, the all-too-giddy congressional Republicans at President Bush’s recent […]
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