In a way, the news that the Bush administration is developing a new strategic doctrine that involves preemptive strikes against terrorists and states alleged to have chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could be viewed as simply formalizing what has been U.S....
If Tories were rats being drowned in a bucket, it would be neither water nor bucket that would bother them, but whether a Clarkeite's blanched belly bobbed to the surface first. The most recent example of this came after l'affaire Cummings, when the party's newly...
A C-Net news item, with the ominous title of "FBI digs deeper into the Web," details how the feds will be tracing the digital trails people leave as they surf the internet, and reports the outrage of civil libertarians. The new guidelines giving the Justice...
A Note from the Author: This is a continuation of my Wednesday column on the formerly libertarian Cato Institute's complete capitulation to the war hysteria, and is best read in that context. To summarize briefly: in endorsing Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision...
It was shocking, and I had to re-read the press release just to make sure: was the libertarian Cato Institute really saying that they had "no problem" with the FBI's new "guidelines" that gave the cops a green light to spy on domestic groups? For...
It was shocking, and I had to re-read the press release just to make sure: was the libertarian Cato Institute really saying that they had "no problem" with the FBI's new "guidelines" that gave the cops a green light to spy on domestic groups? For...
The CBS reporter Monday morning – I didn't catch the name, coming in at the end of the report – was probably not conscious of implicitly endorsing a theory of international relations and political action, and one without a whole lot of evidence behind it....
"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."In the wake of 9/11, much has been written of the link between religion – specifically, Islam – and the rise of the terrorist threat: the religion of Mohammed, we are told, represents a dire threat to...
"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."In the wake of 9/11, much has been written of the link between religion – specifically, Islam – and the rise of the terrorist threat: the religion of Mohammed, we are told, represents a dire threat to the West,...
Just before the US presidential election, a much trailed collection of essays on foreign policy, Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, was published in October 2000 – edited by Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol. To save you...
