More on Obama and Waziristan
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pmOver at Duck of Minerva, Rodger Payne responded to my post on the credulousness with which we’ve accepted the idea that the situation in Waziristan…
Posts Tagged ‘national security’
The Expanded Democratic Majority’s Inauspicious Start
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmYou knew it was coming. And today, it finally happened: Senate Democrats gave Joe Lieberman the delicate little slap on the wrist that we had…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
Pentagon advisory group says cuts are “essential”
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pmThe Pentagon’s "Defense Business Board" pushing President-Elect Obama to consider cutting some of the Pentagon’s more wasteful programs:
A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
The Bioterrorism Bogeyman
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 31st, 2008 at 11:16 amAfter 9/11–particularly after the anthrax attacks–there was quite a bit of chatter about the danger “bioterrorism” posed to the United States. The gist of it…
Terror Via Tweets
By Jesse Singal - Oct 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pmGizmodo has an interesting post, via Danger Room, on the scary possibility of terrorists using Twitter as an organizing tool. If we were serious about…
Double Standards
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 amCNN is reporting that John McCain has claimed that America’s enemies will be encouraged to attack us should we, the American electorate, elect Barack Obama…
Nuclear Terrorism: No Biggie
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pmHere’s an upper: RAND’s Brian Jenkins, who’s been studying the subject for several years, argues that nuclear terrorism isn’t that grave a threat to the…
Maryland State Police: Your Nonviolence Terrorizes Us
By Jesse Singal - Oct 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pmMaybe I was out of line when I argued last week that only non-white folks are ever saddled with the “terrorist” label. It turns out…
“Second Holocaust?” Hardly
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmWhen I first heard someone say that we needed to stop Iran from being responsible for a “second Holocaust,” I thought it was an error…
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 amI don’t understand this as either an electoral strategy or a long-term political one:
Robert Gates would fit in nicely as defense secretary in an…
Only Muslims Can Be “Terrorists”
By Jesse Singal - Sep 29th, 2008 at 1:37 pmOver the weekend a disturbing story ran in the Dayton Daily News:
Baboucarr Njie was preparing for his prayer session Friday night, Sept. 26, when…
U.S.A. = USSR?
By Emily Rutherford - Sep 25th, 2008 at 9:15 am“Tom the Dancing Bug” at Salon suggests that, given that we’re not exactly the guardians of the free world, we might be heading for a…
This is Completely Offensive
By Bradley Portnoy - Sep 15th, 2008 at 10:20 amProfiting off of 9/11, the deadliest ever attack on American soil, is never cool, even seven years later. Enough said.
