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  • You ought to be fired Kaplan

    A high schooler does more research on his or her mid term than you clearly did on this piece. Are you actually of the belief that the U.S. is no longer a superpower and it only was because of the Cold War? How about this stat. Our GDP is bigger than the GDP's of the next four biggest countries, COMBINED. Our economic strength dwarfs the rest ...
    Posted to War Stories by mike volpe on June 5, 2008

  • Democratic mistake is overlooking Hillary

    I am disturbed that so many of my fellow Democrats are so quick to overlook Hillary Clinton, in favor of the mindless handover to Barrack Obama. Are we really so sure he has what it takes to win, and does he really support our ideas? It seems to me that the nomination was handed to Obama based on three factors: 1) The media announced that ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by JimTSnyder on April 28, 2008

  • The Laws in Wartime, by Jack Goldsmith

    Hello Mr. Goldsmith,thank you for your nicely balanced article of Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 7:12 AM ET in http://www.slate.com/id/2187870.For humanitarian reasons fighting a foreign country should be restricted to defence and it's been a long time since the US has been attacked by the military of an outside government. Perhaps you want to talk ...
    Posted to Fixing It by Gunther Bolte on April 5, 2008

  • Bush wanted to "lay down a marker" for his legacy

    indeed; let there be no failure undone, no gaffe unspoken; let the prestige and reputation of the United States be driven so low that the next president won't be able to get it above ground, that'll show the bastards who didn't appreciate the genius of the Bushies.
    Posted to War Stories by gzuckier on April 4, 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

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Re: To Know Us Is To Love Us

    I just have some ''food for thought'' in response to the article by Fred Kaplan regarding America's image abroad, (which was a worthwhile read). As an immigrant in Canada who has lived in numerous countries, I find that America needs to take a step back, and stop trying to force itself onto the plates and TV sets of other countries. American ...
    Posted to War Stories by iko1234 on November 14, 2007

  • Pakistan

    It's not Bush and Condi's fault. They're just drawn that way. The artist in this case is our foreign policy. We (the pentagon/cia/white house) has consistently relied on autocratic generals to do our dirty work, ignoring their misdeeds and made it easy to blame them for not being democratic when they were no longer convenient, pliable or ...
    Posted to War Stories by John Doe on November 6, 2007

  • What is the difference?

    During the Soviet's occupation of Afghanistan, the US supplied weaponry to the Mujahideen, including bin Laden and Al Qaeda to kill Soviet soldiers and contractors because we thought it was in our best interest to conduct a ''Proxy'' war with the Soviets, rather then a direct military confrontation. Iran is doing the same, like America in ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 24, 2007
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