The Greens should be Red in the Face The New Zealand Green Party has signed on to banning dihydrogen monoxide, which is a key element in acid rain, nuclear reactors, and other dangerous items. It’s also known as water. Just more proof that the radical Left never bothers to do its homework before spouting off [...]

Former Pacifist Now can you not only read Jeff Jarvis’ mea culpa (see yesterday’s entry), but now you can wear the T-Shirt. It’s things like this that make me love capitalism.

A Former Pacifist Jeff Jarvis, owner of the excellent WarLog has this to say: Six weeks after…. I grew up watching the Vietnam War over dinner — when we were allowed to see the blood and the fear, not just green blobs on a nightvision screen — and that’s one reason I declared myself a [...]

The Clash of Civilizations Being a student of political science, one of the more interesting books I’ve found that helps to explain the roots of our current conflict is Harvard professor Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. This book helps explain in detail how wars are being fought less along the lines of states, and [...]

The Third World War Jeff Jarvis is calling this war World War III. Indeed, as violence breaks out between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, this war could get a lot bigger. Jeff Jarvis may have a good point here…

Mea culpa National Review‘s Rich Lowry admits that conservatives got nation-building all wrong. While the situations in Somalia and Bosnia were somewhat problematic, the idea of nation-building is much better than many conservatives had painted it. Certainly nation-building is the only way that the US can prevent Afghanistan from returning to state of anarchy, and [...]

"You’re F*cked" Would Be More Accurate The U.S. is dropped pamphlets on Afghanistan with detailed instructions on how to surrender to American troops. They tell the Afghanis that the Taliban is "condemned". If the falling ordnance didn’t make that one clear enough…