Intervening into the Unknown/The Unknown Intervening into US
To recap a bit where we are in this discussion. So I would say Freddie and ED (to a degree) subscribe roughly to what I call the Radiohead Theory of Foreign Policy: i.e. the...
Daily Archive: February 5, 2009
the inevitability dodge
In the comments to ED’s post, Roland Dodds writes “First of all, the ‘meddling’ the United States engages in is the very thing any unipolar (or hegemonic) power would pursue”. Well, you might say...
the democracy fallacy
Here’s a line of reasoning I simply can’t follow: The Islamic world is nothing like the Western world. We have few, if any, of the same values and virtually no historical commonality save our...
