April 2006

Knapp on Iran

Tom Knapp has a cool, dispassionate analysis of why it would be batshit fucking insane for us to attack Iran. Shithouse rat crazy doesn’t even begin to cover the state of mind required to entertain this kind of thing. Throw in the trial balloons about preemptive nuclear strikes — on a country bordering Russia —

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War on Jihadism

Jonathan Rauch has an excellent article at Reason that clarifies who and what we’re really fighting in the “War on Terror.” Jihadism is not a tactic, like terrorism, or a temperament, like radicalism or extremism. It is not a political pathology like Stalinism, a mental pathology like paranoia, or a social pathology like poverty. Rather,

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