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  • Kaplan

    He left out the most important diplomatic issue: The Palistinian-Israeli issue which is at the heart of most of the unrest in the Middle East. The U.S needs to cut Israel free to deal as best it can with its own problems. Israel would have a very difficult time surviving without the help it gets from the U.S. at the United Nations to the ...
    Posted to Fixing It by l del pozzo on April 7, 2008

  • All good about the Next President

    But what about the current one? If Mister Fein is so shocked about the current President actions that he (rightfully) calls criminal anti-constitutional and un-American, why doesn't he call rather for an impeachment process? Clinton was impeached (without much success, fortunately) for a very minor offense, considering the total amount of crimes ...
    Posted to Fixing It by Alphast on April 3, 2008

  • Cannot Fix U.S. Military Without Fixing U.S. Society and Eco

    I wonder what the ''military brat'' elected U.S. Senator from Virginia, a Democrat named James or Jim, thinks about your comprehensive and exhaustive prescription for improvements to our U.S. Military. Only a military officer who has been elected to public office, it seems, is entitled to offer an opinion, since remember: our national military ...
    Posted to Fixing It by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 2008

  • So nuclear weapons are now the only crime?

    I find the idea that ''Well, Iran hasn't any nukes to speak of,'' as a reason to think all diplomatic pressure will now fail to be ridiculous. In fact they scaled back their program in 2003 because of concerns that a nuclear program would make things hard for them on the world stage. Now if that's the case, then it's entirely possible that ...
    Posted to Foreigners by h1661n5 on December 12, 2007

  • unpardonable skepticism

    Hitchens seems to be exercising a strange prerogative here. His skepticism is, but of course, based in cool intellectual rigor. Yet, out of nowhere, he concludes his essay by announcing that any such skepticism being voiced by ''liberals and Democrats'' should be regarded as suspect to the point of being unpardonable. (Presumably the crime needing ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on November 20, 2007

  • Everyday Diplomacy

    Every day diplomacy By Joel L. Merchant Countries, like people, make friends with others one at a time. This is a story of one failure. In fairness to an unknown visitor to our country, imagine yourself in his place. The scene is on a recent Amtrak trip between New York City and Boston. The conductor collects tickets, requests identification, ...
    Posted to Fraywatch by JLMerchant on November 18, 2007

  • Does This Mean Rundeep Is In The Lead?

    Lay yer bets! Are we going to have another woman winner? Or will it be chango (always the crowd favourite)Urquhart (never underestimate him)Ozymandias (a wild card - after all, among many more, he won the ghost's challenge in survivor, remember)august - (a true intellectual, and charming as all get out)Schadenfreude - (history buff supreme, ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by topazz on October 18, 2007

  • Re: Hitchens is correct for the first time since 1997

    LT-7: No. I just don't like to have them use things just to try and divert attention. There aren't all that many things that we are going to actually do anything about while we are stuck in Iraq. Our military is highly unlikely to end up invading Myanmar and creating a regime change. It is too busy stuck in the middle of a civil war in ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by roctheboat on October 2, 2007

  • Should we stay or should we go now?

    I don't fault Bush for his religious beleifs. I share many. I do fault him for listening to his neo-con brethren and simply going into a country without a plan for TOTAL defeat and subsequent rebuilding as the Marshall plan accomplished in post WWII era. The problem with this war and recent previous wars is we won a few quick victories and assumed ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by tigertigerpurrandroar on September 8, 2007

  • Diplomat needed

    I (of all people) am moderating a new game of Diplomacy, to start in a week or two, depending on how long it takes me to set up and get the last player. I have rough confirmations from six players (Schadenfreude, Urquhart, topazz, Thrasymachus, Snolly G, and evidently chango). If you guys could please confirm, or you want to be the final player, ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by Keifus on August 4, 2007
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