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The Long View 2005-02-03: The State of the Union 2005

If President George W. Bush presented the 2003 Iraq War as just one campaign in a larger conflict, I suppose he was right. But I don't think we got exactly what he meant. The State of the Union 2005 That was a very strong speech the president gave

The Long View 2005-02-01: The Origins of Bad Behavior

We should indeed be wary of Just-So Stories when it comes to the evolution of traits, but not exactly in the way John expresses here: The study itself, in fact, purports to find a correlation between the murder rates in primitive societies and the incidence of lefthandedness among their populations.

The Long View 2005-01-30: Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol

We are lucky President George W. Bush's privatization of social security never got anywhere. That combined with the housing bubble could have been genuinely revolutionary, in the howling mob kind of way. Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol National Public Radio this morning took care to remind its

The Long View 2005-01-26: Anonymous, Huis Clos, Alcohol, Acoustic Decavitation

Michael Scheuer still strikes me as a bit of a nut, but the prediction John Reilly heaped scorn on here seems to have been spot on. Anonymous, Huis Clos, Alcohol, Acoustic Decavitation Michael Scheuer, the former CIA expert on Osama bin Laden, is best known for his book Imperial Hubris.

The Long View 2004-11-04: Anti-Tet

The comparison John Reilly makes here[via Robert Kaplan] between Iraq and India is a particularly interesting one. You do not usually hear of the two countries compared in any meaningful way, but the distinction here is the differing responses of each people to extended foreign occupation. Violent uprisings were

The Long View 2004-10-04: The First Presidential Debate; The Vatican; EU Accounting

The George W. Bush versus John Kerry election in 2004, as described by John here, is a very interesting foretaste of things to come. Bush is described, accurately in my opinion, as a cheerleader for the war in Iraq launched in 2003, while Kerry was interested in the details but

The Long View 2004-09-21: You Can't Make This Stuff Up

I was never able to take Pat Buchanan's critique of the Iraq War seriously because of statements like the one quoted in John's post here. While Buchanan was pretty right about the war overall, I still think the reason Iraq is unstable is that it is