My primary caution is, as I described before, that we need to leave “room to be wrong” in order to get decent people engaged in government service, to explore different ideas, to not be so tentative and cautious as to… Continue Reading
Former Vice President Dick Cheney would like to gain some measure of vindication for torturing particular high-value al-Qaeda prisoners with the assertion that the torture induced these prisoners to yield up valuable information that was used to foil additional plots… Continue Reading
I’ve not written about the torture memos yet. That’s because they leave me deeply conflicted and I’ve still not reached a complete enough mental resolution of the facts to have a solid opinion.Not about the torture. The news that Americans,… Continue Reading
A Spanish court issued indictments today for six Americans, some of whose names will sound familiar to all of you: Douglas Feith, John Yoo, Jay Bybee, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, and Alberto Gonzales. These six men are accused… Continue Reading
Torture is in the news again, as the Red Cross joins the ranks of international organizations condemning the United States for using torture to interrogate terrorism prisoners, this time focusing on medical doctors who participated in the process to make… Continue Reading
There’s this cool classic rock song from The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again. It’s used as the theme music for one of the CSI shows. I’ve always liked the interplay between the Hammond pipe organ and Pete Townsend tearing up… Continue Reading
Get out your Kool Aid and pointy tinfoil hats. President Obama said nice things about Muslims, and refuses to engage in rhetoric suggesting that Islam is a virulent threat to all normalcy, moral goodness, and civilization itself. Indeed, he gave… Continue Reading
The Sun has got entirely the wrong spin on this story. It suggests that the events described in the story are somehow a fortuitous turn of events. In fact, what’s going on is damned scary. Al Qaeda is playing with… Continue Reading
It’s rare for me to make Big Brass Ones Awards in rapid succession. But after seeing this video, I’ve gotta hand it to these Israeli soldiers who found a very creative way to take a couple of the bad guys… Continue Reading
This is an English-language briefing — yes, intended for a European and American audience — from the IDF. You won’t be seeing this on the Daily Kos.