Category Archives: War

Some effects of the bomb plot which are of parochial interest: The Stop Stansted Expansion campaign has just won. No one is going to want to travel on a plane without any form of distraction, unless in a wondow seat. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know I keep linking to the Telegraph but it is much the best source for the way that the British Army is thinking — and, in other parts, for the rather different ways that the neocons used to think. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Very long, and characteristically thoughtful piece from Billmon on the NSA surveillance state, which contains one fresh point that I think is important, and not widely made. Americans put up with a degree of interference and minute control from their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now that Bush and Blair are racing each other to the bottom of the polls, I remembered one of the most unpopular things I ever wrote, a Worm’s Eye column nearly two years old today. I stole one of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t often blog about stuff from American politics, but this speech by Al Franken should be in textbooks of rhetoric. Sorry, I mean it should be on all flash-enabled training solution-facing resources for effective interpersonal communications. Continue reading →

OK — here are two quotes. One is from the Onion this week, and the other is from Charles Krauthammer’s column in today’s Washington Post. The hard thing is to decide which is which. Vote in the comments, please. People … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have revised my opinion that there will be no war with Iran. This isn’t because I think it makes sense, or can be won, or anything like that. It’s because I read the Daily Telegraph to find out what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

ho ho ho ho I have done occasional dive bombings of what the Telegraph wrote when the war was going well; but of course the standard of jingoistic hubris on American television is immeasurably higher. These quotes — not just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Three stories from Iraq, when put together, suggest some of the causes and consequences of the impending retreat. The first two are about how the British Army, as an institution, seems to have turned against the war. It’s remarkable that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think this stands as the most comprehensive surrender document signed by any ideology since 1989. America should avoid direct, large-scale military action in the Middle East, relying instead on surrogates and operating behind the scenes to turn Muslim opinion … Continue reading → Continue reading →