Category: Politics

I rcently read what I thought was an insightful comment on terrorism, although I have unfortunately now forgotten where. The comment was that terrorists want to be judged on their statements, but they are in fact judged on their actions. For example, Osama bin Laden has stated that his goals are to force U.S. forces…

What should we do about Iraq? (Obviously a contentious topic.) It seems clear at this late date that the reasons that the Bush administration gave for the invasion were consistently either lies or hopes which have failed. But that is the past. What should we do now? What are the advantages of keeping the army…

My original plan for this blog has evidently flagged. I find myself often thinking of things I would like to write about, but I’m not making the time to actually write them. I’m switching to a new plan. My goal now is to write a new post every day (perhaps every weekday), writing for about…

The Bush administration recently admitted that it has authorized wiretapping of U.S. citizens without getting authorization from a special court which oversees wiretapping requests. The court was set up in the 1970s responding to the Church commission, which discovered the extent to which wiretapping was used to investigate anti-war and civil rights protestors during the…