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Never interfere when an enemy is committing suicide.
Archive for the ‘International Affairs’ Category
November 24th, 2009
Obama’s climate diplomacy with India is constructive, modest — and realistic.
October 20th, 2009
Geoengineering, as pushed by Freakonomics, means world government.
October 15th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan
James Vega’s urgent case for rejecting counterinsurgency in Afghanistan—and the imperial mission that the counterinsurgency model, surprisingly, requires.
October 14th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment, Middle East Politics, Moral philosophy, Nationalism, Politics and Leadership, Uncategorized
If you’re still collecting evidence that a society built on extractive wealth is liable to moral pathology, put this one in your dossier. The Saudis are demanding that if we use less of their climate-toxic export, we should pay them (and the other oil-exporting countries) for what we don’t buy.
Let us pause in awe at [...]
October 11th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan
We seem to be committed to a counterinsurgency campaign on behalf of a government than can’t govern. I’ve seen this movie before, and didn’t like the ending.
September 29th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan, Drug Policy
James Wimberley’s plea to do something about the under-treatment of pain in Africa (and other parts of the developing world) addresses a problem that has received less attention than it deserves, partly because pain, unlike death, isn’t very easy to count. His first-choice solution is to buy opium in Afghanistan to make into opiates [...]
September 29th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan, Drug Policy
Sourcing morphine for the poor from Afghan opium: I retract some intemperate language but not the idea.
