Obama is trying to offer “honorable reconciliation” to the Taliban. The Taliban think that’s a pretty goofy idea. I hate to say it but I agree with the Taliban. The problem is that our current president, and too many of his fellow travelers on the left, simply misunderstand the world.
They seem to think we have [...]
I missed an interesting detail in the previous discussion of the Left’s version of the Geneva Convention. Pres. Obama’s executive order on interrogations contains a big loophole. It creates a task force whose purpose is:
to study and evaluate whether the interrogation practices and techniques in Army Field Manual 2 22.3, when employed by departments or [...]
With Obama in office and the executive orders on Gitmo and terrorist interrogations out, we are hearing a more about Geneva Convention Common Article 3. So I thought I’d take a look for myself. I must say, it’s a rather unrewarding read.
Article 3 - defines acts that are cannot be done to noncombatants in “armed [...]
An interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirer recently argued for a decentralized approach to national security and the war on terror. It drew a number of parallels with the natural world, discussing adaptation and semiautonomous organisms as problem solvers. It was interesting, if tangential at times.
I wonder, though, whether the authors or the editors at [...]