Zero Base Thinking

Vacation Over OK, not so much a vacation as a mixed business/pleasure trip. In any case, I was out there, on a roadtrip, having a fine old t...

Ruminations on the Palistinians Recently I stumbled upon a copy of Edward Said's The Question of Palestine , and I reread parts of it. F...

Google to Blogs: Get Lost Well, maybe not. At least not yet. But the signs are unmistakable that the current predominance that blogs have i...

Bears Under Attack "Activists sue U.S. Wildlife Service over the killing of bears" reads the headline in a news item. Apparently ...

Who Stands Alone Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and stone, all buried on a distant land so far away from home. For just a s...

Gay Marriage In today's Daily Dish entry Andrew Sullivan takes James Taranto to task for his views on Gay Marriage. Taranto makes the e...

Intelligent Design Now the debate on Darwinian evolution is heating up again. The opposition chooses to use the euphemism "Intelligent...

Miranda Warnings Any watcher of TV police dramas knows that the police try as hard as they can to elicit confessions from suspects, and they...

Umm Qasr, Success Story If this story is correct, the way the British are handling the civilianization of Umm Qasr should serve as the tem...

Military Intelligence We hear so much these days about the power of our combined arms attack. We forget that our tanks are 1970s technology,...

Rules of War There has been a bit of babble on the tube about the Iraqi forces "not playing by the rules" of warfare, the Geneva c...

EA-6B Prowler I recently noticed, in video from the deck of one of our Aircraft Carriers, that the A-6 jet fighter that was being launched s...

Saddam In this atmosphere of superlatives, I pause before making the statement I plan to make here. We are told that this has been the faste...

War Polarizes As the war progresses, the opinions expressed by those citizens who respond to pollsters have become more polarized. Not only ...

War Aims What are our war aims? In the beginning, it was billed as a continuation of the war on terror. Then it was the suppression of a pro...

What About Baghdad? Reading about the enormously rapid and breathtakingly successful sweep of our forces from the desert of Kuwait into the ...

Now U.S. Knows How Israel Feels In an insightful article in the Jerusalem Post , Barry Rubin asks how it feels to Americans to be treated th...

Echoes of Viet Nam There are a few aspects of the current conflict that are evocative of our Viet Nam experience. I thought that we had lear...

Some Thoughts on the War This piece from Oriana Falaci is a magnificent, almost poetic screed by a former Italian resistance fighter, a jou...

War Imminent As the water gets hotter and hotter, this frog is about to break into a rolling boil. France and Germany have failed to stop th...