"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
DJ responds to my recent post about not intervening in Syria (promoted from the comments.) He helped broker peace in the vicious Sri Lanka civil war. Could the same process happen in Syria? It bothers me that the idea of…
Counterinsurgency doctrine is the symptom of an idea more primeval and dangerous: violence is the solution.
Flashing back from a card game, I reflect on some of the things I’ve seen. How am I compared to what?
BBC headline trumpets, “Tamil refugees are allowed home.”  But read the article. In fact, only 4,000 of the hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees got to leave the camps this week. How many refugees are there? The number commonly cited…
Boston.com offers a stunning series of photos from the last days of the Sri Lankan conflict. Some of them are gruesome. Others are astoundingly beautiful.