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So DADT repeal won’t wreck the armed forces and leave us naked to our enemies. The Marines’ honor has been a little besmirched by that noble service registering the highest fraction (40-60% compared to 30% average for the whole military) expecting negative effects, but they will get over it and they will follow orders with [...]
Archive for the ‘National Security’ Category
January 2nd, 2010
Category: Crime Control, The War in Iraq
The judge had no choice; the prosecutors screwed up big-time. But there’s still a chance to make a criminal case for false statements and obstruction of justice.
October 21st, 2009
The Pentagon’s excuse for opposing Al Franken’s anti-rape amendment doesn’t pass the laugh test.
September 11th, 2009
Category: National Security, Uncategorized
Eight years after 9/11, the least reformed part of our intelligence establishment is not the CIA or the FBI. It’s Congress. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission called congressional oversight of intelligence “dysfunctional.” In 2007 former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton pleaded with the Senate Intelligence Committee to do something. And last May, when Speaker [...]
February 28th, 2009
Category: The occupation of Iraq
He declares victory and will bring the troops home by 2011.
December 26th, 2008
Category: The War in Iraq
If Jews who engage in financial frauds should kill themslves, how about those who engage in political fraud?
December 24th, 2008
The Bush Administration engaged in a a “systemic failure to take seriously the spirit as well as the letter of this country’s commitment” to the law and human rights, and therefore we should not do anything about it.
December 14th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq
The guy who threw the boots at Bush works for a network that supports the Sunni insurgency, so he doesn’t exactly speak for the Iraqi people. On the other hand, this suggests a hole in the security web around the President.
November 11th, 2008
The Brits provide their war dead with decent cybermemorials, why not the Pentagon?
