Ace reporter and former debate partner Scott continues his series on the Israeli elections:
Exit polls currently show Kadima with a slight lead in the overall vote count while Likud is a razor’s edge behind. It’s difficult to get accurate information about the Israeli election results thus far, but I can tell you one thing – [...]
Scott, my former debate partner and all-around ass clown who cost us God knows how many rounds good guy, kindly put together a primer for the blog on Israel’s upcoming elections. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of his analysis, but he was the Mary Washington policy debate squad’s point man for Israel on last [...]
Peter Wehner:
To the vast majority of Americans, to most other nations, and even to the United Nations, the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a just use of force. The Taliban regime, after all, was allowing Afghanistan to be used as a safe haven for al Qaeda, a place for training and planning and launching attacks. [...]
The crazy thing about this Michael Goldfarb post is that he concedes aerial bombardment rarely works (“It’s true that there are very few examples in 20th century history of a bombing campaign that actually broke the morale of a people at war . . .”) while simultaneously reaffirming his support for the latest round of [...]
Because my knowledge of the Palestinian conflict is pretty shallow, I’ll refrain from commenting on the effectiveness of Israel’s recent military action. However, I think a renewed outbreak of violence raises broader questions about proportionality and the legitimacy of military retaliation that deserve to be addressed.
At Conventional Folly, I went a few rounds with Sonny [...]
