National Security
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- The Winklevoss Twins of Getting Bin Laden
- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- Must-Reads of the Week: SWAT, Google's News Plans, MTA Motto, Peanuts, Tea Party Feminism, Republican Pravda, Fiscal Hangover, New York's Tyranny, Brooks on the Military, and Facebook Backlash
- A Sustainable Afghanistan Policy
- Why Terrorists Aim For Big Well-Defended Targets
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement. (cont.)
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement.
- Nuclear Policy in an Age of Terrorism and Madmen
- Must-Reads of the Week: Nukes, Inconsistencies, Graphing the Economic Crisis, Half-Hookers, Palin 2012, Mailer's Wife, & Complex Business Models
- The Efficacy of Drone Attacks
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Surveillance In the Bush Administration
- Israel: Your American Tax Dollars At Work
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- The Disparity Between the President's Foreign and Domestic Powers
- The Hypocrisy of Hoekstra
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Not even the Bush administration argued that the Constitution applies only to American citizens
- Americans Want a Second Bush-Cheney Administration?
- Pinhead of the Week: NJ Dem Frank Lautenberg
- Get It Through Your Heads: No President Can Keep You Safe
- Christopher Hitchens Speaking Uncomfortable Truths
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- "Hardly Churchillian."
- The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics
- Dueling Op-Eds
- The Emotional Logic of Trying KSM in Federal Court
- Deconstructing the Right Wing Appropriation of the Term "Appeasement"
- Karzai gave in because he knew Obama was serious while Bush had not been
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- The Virtue in Muddling Through in Afghanistan
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Our "Small Freedoms"
- Glenn Greenwald's Civil Libertarian Propaganda
- Reevaluating George W. Bush's Legacy
- Must Reads of the Past Two Weeks! (Extended Edition): J Street, NPH, Liberalism, Topless, Colombian Hippos, Grassroots, 1990s Reunion, Insuring Illegals, and the Iranian Time Bomb
- The Bureaucracy of Al Qaeda
- The Rift Torture Created Between the CIA and FBI Made America Less Safe
- Obama’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Prisoners at Guantánamo and Bagram
- A Reactionary Politics Leads To Torture
- A World Where 24 Is "Believable" and Orwell Is Misquoted
- The CIA Hired Blackwater to Help with Covert Killings
- Censoring the Truth About the Crusader Prince?
- Military Envy
- Sick of all this naivete about Obama
- Cokie Roberts Thinks the Rule of Law Might Be More Important Than A Pleasant Atmosphere in Washington
- Is The Secret Plan Panetta Found Hersh's "Executive Assasination Ring"?
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- My Congressman Pete King Pisses On Michael Jackson; I Repay the Favor
- It Is a "War"
- Email UPS to Stop Their Sponsorship of Glenn Beck's Advocating Terrorism To "Save" America
- The Obama Doctrine
- The Incoherence of Ajami
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- Experimenting With National Security Policy
- NSA's Secret Pinwale Program Used to Spy on Bill Clinton
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- Biden Says Talks With Iran To Go Forward
- Iran's Green "Revolution"
- Closed-Door Hearings
- The Cairo Rapprochement
- "Nobody’s going to wage a tough political battle to give up power."
- Irony Watch: Cheney on Euphemisms
- A Truth Commission
- Stephen Walt's Insights
- We Are All Guilty
- Contra Taibbi: Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Need to Fight Them Here
- Must-Reads This Weekend
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- The Lessons of Torture in World War II
- Quote of the Day
- Ali Soufan Goes to Washington
- Dramatizing the Ticking Time Bomb Scenario
- Fox News uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack Obama
- Must-Reads of the Week
- The Amnesia of the Right
- Pakistan: The Edge of the Abyss
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- Why Should I Care If a Terrorist Was Tortured?
- Homo Blogicus, Pup, Pakistan, Torture, Marijuana, and the Revenge of Geography
- Name, Rank and Serial Number
- How to Prevent the Swine Flu
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- Torture Works...For Some Things...
- Cheney Didn't Panic
- Framing the Torture Debate
- 7 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
- Torture is worse than immoral: it’s tactically stupid
- The Soft Underbelly of the Modern State
- Outlasting America in Afghanistan
- The Price of Prohibition I: Propping Up The Mexican Cartels
- Sarkozy: Right on nothing, prescient on everything
- Collective Intelligence and the Military
- The Iran-Iraq Balance
- The Opposite of Counterinsurgency
- Liberty in the Face of Men With Guns
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs (cont.)
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs
- The Jack Bauer Archetype
- Colin Gray on China, Terrorism, and Proliferation
- The Significance of Jack Bauer
- The Rule of Law
- The Unintended Consequences of a War on Drugs
- Funding Both Sides of Mexico's Drug War
- Clear-eyed Engagement
- We Cannot Pass the Buck
- Pakistan: The Nexus
- The Story That Tells You Everything You Need To Know About US-Pakistan Relations
- A Summary of the Civil Libertarian Case for a "War" Against Terrorism
- Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Doesn't Care If Marijuana Is Legalized
- Congressman Pete King Wants Club Med Investigated For Human Rights Violations Just Like Guantanamo
- The War on Drugs is Making Us Less Safe: Mexico
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- The War on Drugs is Making Us Less Safe (cont.)
- Iran's Strategic Realignment
- The War on Drugs Is Making Us Less Safe
- Afpak & Iran
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe (cont.)
- Torture, Plain and Simple
- The Populist Party Blog
- Why It Should Be A 'War' Against Terrorism
- Not Taking the War on Terror Seriously
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism (cont.)
- Al Qaeda versus Obama (again)
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism
- A Tortured Plot Device
- A Double Standard (cont.)
- A Double Standard
- Stuck on the Terrorist Watch List
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism (cont.)
- Opposing Pete King for NY Senate
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism
- Illegal Drugs and the War on Terror
- The Judgment of History
- Law as a Guide Rather than an Obstacle in National Security
- Does Torture Work?
- Like Small Children
- Army of the Pure
- Liberty is Not Another Word for Anti-Antiterrorism
- Middle-Class Murmers
- The American People, Properly Informed
- Why do we care about international standards?
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State
- What's Next: Secretaries of State and Defense
- The Scowcroft Conspiracy
- A Skeptic's Case For Barack Obama
- In the Shadow of September 11 and the War on Terrorism
- What Al Qaeda Really Fears
- The World Is Blowing Up. We Can't Be One-Issue Voters Today.
- John McCain, Neoconservative
- Al Qaeda v. Barack Obama
- The Wrong Lessons, The Wrong Leader
- Yesterday's American Heroes, Not Tomorrow's Leaders
- A brighter day will come
- "You were wrong."
- Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term
- Fun Fact About McCain #1: Panicking in a Crisis
- Confronting Another Architect of War
- Thanking the Jawa Report
- Neoconservatives, gleeful, see Palin as "a blank page"
- The Lesson We Did Not Learn from 9/11
- Grandstanding McCain: Despite Fine Words, He Refused to Act on Torture
- "We are all Georgians!": Fantasy as Foreign Policy
- Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?
- Jesse Ventura vs. The Black Swan
- Selling Tom Friedman
- 11 Reasons to Donate to Barack Obama Tonight
- Bush-McCain Refuses to Make Tough Foreign Policy Choices
- "A Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the West"
- Quote of the Day
- Dubya Made Obama Possible
- Obama Tells You Why You Shouldn't Be Disillusioned Because of His FISA Vote
- Defying Common Sense Since 2001
- A Timeline of the Russian-Georgian War
- A President for Our Dangerous Times
- Quasi-Defending the Windfall Profits Tax
- Quote of the Day
- Setting America Up to Fail
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- Why Obama's FISA Vote Shouldn't Disillusion You
- Barack Obama, FISA, and Telecom Immunity
- The Military Chooses Obama
- Why I Am Still Supporting Barack Obama After His Vote For Telecom Immunity
- A Warning from Secretary Gates: "Our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America" if we strike Iran.
- Obama's critics
- Bush to Attack Iran as an October Surprise?
- If that's what you believe, Mr. McCain, you'll have to draft me.
- Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense
- America: Kind of Like Spider-man
- Digg Lies!
- Bush's Counterterrorism Strategy: Winning Through Losing