The War on Terrorism
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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 Efficacy of Drone Attacks
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Surveillance In the Bush Administration
- 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
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- 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
- 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"
- What Do the Taliban, Hannah Montana, and the Beatles Have in Common?
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- 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
- What We Forgot All Too Quickly
- 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
- 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"
- Experimenting With National Security Policy
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- 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
- 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
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- Torture Works...For Some Things...
- Cheney Didn't Panic
- Framing the Torture Debate
- 7 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
- Outlasting America in Afghanistan
- The Iran-Iraq Balance
- The Jack Bauer Archetype
- Colin Gray on China, Terrorism, and Proliferation
- The Significance of Jack Bauer
- The Rule of Law
- 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
- Congressman Pete King Wants Club Med Investigated For Human Rights Violations Just Like Guantanamo
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- The War on Drugs Is Making Us Less Safe
- 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
- Israel and Hamas
- 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
- Carrie Fischer, Cary Grant, and LSD
- Does Torture Work?
- Like Small Children
- Army of the Pure
- Liberty is Not Another Word for Anti-Antiterrorism
- The American People, Properly Informed
- A Skeptic's Case For Barack Obama
- In the Shadow of September 11 and the War on Terrorism
- What Al Qaeda Really Fears
- Al Qaeda v. Barack Obama
- The Wrong Lessons, The Wrong Leader
- Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term
- Confronting Another Architect of War
- Thanking the Jawa Report
- The Lesson We Did Not Learn from 9/11
- Grandstanding McCain: Despite Fine Words, He Refused to Act on Torture
- Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?
- 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"
- Dubya Made Obama Possible
- A President for Our Dangerous Times
- Setting America Up to Fail
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- Why I Am Still Supporting Barack Obama After His Vote For Telecom Immunity
- If that's what you believe, Mr. McCain, you'll have to draft me.
- Digg Lies!
- Obama versus McCain on Iraq
- The Weekly Standard Jumps the Shark
- The Liberation of a Murderer
- Bush's Counterterrorism Strategy: Winning Through Losing
- Questions about McCain's Foreign Policy
- Evaluating McCain's 'realistic idealism'
- It's all Condi' fault
- Dunkin Donuts: The Coffee of Jihadists
- McCain: Puppies for everyone!
- Obama explains Hamas's "endorsement"
- Confronting the architects of war
- A Moderate Reputation: Explaining McCain's Changes of Heart
- Killing the United Nations
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Pope Endorses Barack Obama in UN Speech
- Shin Bet Refuses to Assist in Providing Security to President Carter
- Yoo are too Clever by a Half
- A harsh judgment
- September 11
- An emotional calculus
- Is Joe Lieberman acting as a "stealth Democrat"?
- Steve King: Obama will be a savior to Al Qaeda
- Man, there's a country where they have great tactics to prevent suicide bombings
- Linda Chavez's unhinged "patriotism"
- Torture, law-breaking, and the American way
- Soft on crime
- The Jihad Bunny
- Passive support for al-Qaeda
- Trial lawyers want to protect your civil liberties!
- I Don't Like Waterboarding
- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
- We don’t do stuff like that very often.
- Like Hope, But Different
- "Openly opposing torture"
- A collective failure
- Slowly standing up
- The morons die with our respect.
- Why I write this blog
- The Iraq Thing
- Our Lady of the Law
- A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment
- Staving off disaster in Pakistan
- Did our foreign policy cause 9/11?
- And I am Caesar.
- Vince Flynn & The Preemptive Surrender of American Values
- Eschewing politics
- Islamist Terrorism as "a generational phenomenon"
- In Honor of Those Who Serve and Sacrifice
- The Renaissance and the efficacy of torture
- The meaning of is is
- Dead Certain
- What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?
- Obama on Iran
- Quote of the Day
- Who knew the Iraqi insurgency was so status-conscious?
- Worth Mulling Over
- Barack Obama on Iraq
- Terrorist Attack on Bhutto
- George Dubya...in a speedo
- Pragmatic, Principled, Obama
- Under the Weather..
- Columbus Day
- Pakistani Power Politics
- Two Methods of Interrogation
- The Choice