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Decision Making During the Kosovo War
Published on 2010-12-12 13:33:00
So this is the first posting of mine in several months. I know; I'm a lazy bastard. And today's posting topic is fairly esoteric and probably uninteresting to the majority of readers who aren't PS or IR/IS nerds. That being said, I still thought it was "cool" enough to write up. So without further ado...---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The field of International Relations utilizes many tools both for the synthesis
Israel and Palestine
Published on 2010-08-13 01:38:00
The Israeli raid this past May of Turkish flagged aid ships is the latest in a long line of tit for tat shoot 'em ups in the long standing Middle East conflict between the state of Israel and occupied territories Palestine. For as long as I've been politically conscious, the conflict has remained a mainstay of controversy and aggravation for all sides concerned. And although the first fruits of the present turmoil can be said to have been planted in 1947 with the passing of UN resolution 181, it
WARGH!!!!
Published on 2010-04-28 03:10:00
I realized something today: everytime I re-read Fiasco or Cobra-II, I get angry. I mean literally angry. For the whole period between late 2003 to 2006, you had people saying "you can't Monday morning quarterback", and "we couldn't have known about the insurgency". But for the entire year preceding the war, there were dozens of peole at the Pentagon, DoS, and various war colleges saying that the "planning" for the occupation was woefully inadequate and was almost entirely composed best case scen
Scatter-Brained Musings on My Philosophy
Published on 2010-03-30 00:43:00
I was going to start this post by noting how I haven't posted anything in a while but then it occured to me that not enough people read this blog for me or anyone else to care about the rate of my out put. And since I don't get paid to do this, screw whatever anyone thinks about someone not updating their blog regularly. There are two types of people who have both the mental stamina and incentive to post on anything like a regular or semi regular basis; people with next to no lives outside their
Exceptionalism: Myths and Legends (Part 2)
Published on 2010-02-27 02:01:00
In direct contrast to McClay’s piece, Zinn comes out and explicitly identifies exactly what the American “mission” is and ties it directly to the concept of American exceptionalism. Exceptionalism, the belief that one’s own country or people have been “chosen” or “fated” to greatness, is not new. Before modern expressions of the philosophy in the U.S, Zinn points out the 1632 exhortations of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor, John Winthrop for the fledgling colony “to be as a c
Exceptionalism: Myths and Legends (Part 1)
Published on 2010-02-24 13:34:00
A while back, I was on a web discussion board where one of the members had posed the question, and I’m paraphrasing here: "are liberals the only ideological group that oppose exceptionalism?" In my studied opinion, the guy who’d posted the query was an idiot and thank God several people told him so. The discussion devolved into several different side issues some of which questioned the very morality of exceptionalism. Not too long after, my poli sci class was asked to answer a variation on t