There was a fascinating discussion a few days back on WBUR’s On Point with Tom Asbrook about the ethics of a military intervention in Syria. Guests were Michael Walzer of Just and Unjust Wars and Steven Walt of Taming American … Continue reading
This April 4th is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. I was just 12 when it happened, but I remember vividly the heartbreaking day when King was shot down in Memphis while supporting striking garbage workers … Continue reading
As the administration mounts its surge/escalation of upwards of ~45,000 troops (~20,000 combat) in Bahgdad, Andy Davison sends us this reminder of what happens to the best laid plans of imperial ambition. In the Sixth Year of the Peloponnesian War: … Continue reading
Those of you with TV may be watching “24” and its fictional vision of a terrorist nuking of the US. And the response. There is an On Point program of WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook has an excellent program … Continue reading
I recently posted Andy Davison’s op-ed for the Poughkeepsie Journal, entitled ‘A Change in Iraq Means Reconsidering the Logic of Force’. In it he expressed skepticism about President Bush’s plan for a surge of troops, and suggested the alternative of … Continue reading
Disappointed by the vengeful manner in which Saddam Hussein was executed, the leading American commander in Iraq told reporters last week, “if you’re asking me, ‘would we have done things differently,’ yes, we would have.” The implication was not that … Continue reading