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- The Torturing of Christopher Hitchens
Waterboarding: Viable interrogation technique? Or simply torture? Christopher Hitchens put his money where his mouth is and had himself waterboarded by the US military.
This is a great stunt and you gotta give Hitch credit for volunteering. However I don’t think experiential “evidence” alone can solve this debate. Thoughts?
Via Pharyngula
- Why States are Important in the WoT
One major and poorly explained reason for the invasion of Iraq was not the the physical presence of WMD but the willingness of a state with WMD capability and/or weapons to train and equip terrorists and possibly provide them with said weapons. While little serious diplomacy had been attempted with Iran and North Korea, Iraq [...]
- OIF Original Aims
Five years and going, the Iraq War has been subject to more spin, hyperbole and misinformation that anything else in our time. According to Douglas Feith, in his new book War and Decision, the two biggest errors of the Bush administration were: (1) Not communicating clearly the multifaceted reasons for going to Iraq and (2) [...]
- War or Adaptation
I’ve discussed the issue of the War on Terror, specifically its name and whether is is helpful or counterproductive. Curzon also noted that it could become a nebulous war without end.
So readers: Can the Global War on Terror really even be called a war or is it simply America’s adapting to a new reality?
Does labeling [...]
- Douglas Feith
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who served from July 2001 until August 2005, has recently published a new book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism.
It details his role in the Defense Department and the events and policy making process during his time [...]
- War Without End
As my learned colleague previously noted, “it is time to declare victory in the War on Terrorism and move on.” There is simply no value in war without end. And in this slightly dated, but no less relevant article from the Atlantic Monthly, writer Ken Dermota notes how the war on drugs has [...]
- Remember the Philippines!
According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans — a slim majority — now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.
The percentage of those who believe the [...]
- Kissinger Speaks
... on Iraq and the Iraq War, NATO and the EU, Pakistan and Iran, radical Islam and pacifism, George Bush and Obama and McCain, objective reality and moral considerations, and plenty more.
The interview is short but the content is real—highly recommended reading (and the articles comes from Der Spiegel of all places). To quote [...]
- End of “beautiful Japan”
At 14:00 this afternoon Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced his intention to resign. This comes as a shock since he was so dogged about staying on after a drubbing in the upper house elections last month, not to mention the countless scandals, firings and suicides. Furthermore, Mr Abe recently stated that he would stake [...]
- Goodbye Bumper Sticker Slogan
Britain officially drops “War on Terror” rhetoric.
Brown, it seems, has concluded that the war rhetoric employed by Blair was divisive, threatening social peace between communities in Britain, and counterproductive, making it harder to turn the British Muslim community into the security services’ eyes and ears. In other words, the Brown approach would be the approach [...]
