Did Bush Do Enough? OK. We all know that my position on the 9/11 hearings is that the attempt to assign political blame for 9/11 is more ha...

Memorial: Most of you will have seen this at the Sage of Knoxville's site , but some of you--I know--don't go there. You should tak...

Anticipatory Retaliation: A.R. has moved. You can now find the master of the silos at his address in an undisclosed location.

News from Out East: Uzbeks allied to General Abdul Dostum have taken one of Afghanistan's provincial captials, in defiance of the US-bac...

Ammo Situation Red: All that below being proper and true, it's worth remembering that it doesn't look that way to the PBIs : even i...

Carrying On: Blackfive has an article on American media bias against the military in Iraq. He saw, on his commute, this Chicago newspaper ...

Terror Types: KGC at Cogicophony has an interesting debate about types of terrorism . At issue is which forms require state support, and wh...

The Rules Have Changed: Today's news shows that the Rules of Engagement have loosened under USMC authority. Marines destroyed a mosque ...

Pulling Out the Stops: Well, al-Sadr proves to be braver than I expected. When he withdrew to Najaf, it looked to me like he was responding...

Chemterror: Samizdata reports that a chemical warfare attack has been averted, in London.

Al-Sadr Update: Things are looking bad for Moqtada al-Sadr. Yesterday it proved that al-Sadr had been told to stand down by the Shi'it...

Tartan Day: Welcome to Tartan Day, 2004! The "tartan" is a kind of plaid, one that is symmetrical. It is most famously associate...

Operation Valiant Resolve: In addition to the fighting around Sadr City, Operation Valiant Resolve has begun in and around Fallujah. US Mar...

Al-Sadr Gets Scared: Muqtader (also Moqtada) al-Sadr, always called a "firebrand" by whoever is writing about him, has inherited a...

Mercenaries II: Those of you who slogged all the way through the comments on the "KOS" post, below, will have come across a polite...

Tartan Day: Tuesday is Tartan Day ! Absinthe and Cookies is holding a celebration. I'm a member of the Clan Donnachaidh , which is ...

The Belmont Club As has been pointed out to me in several emails and in the comments, the Belmont Club has quite a bit of speculation about...

The Peril of Anecdotes: Today the Guardian , whose journalists are so antiwar that they wrote a book entitled The War We Could Not Stop , ha...

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries : A poem, by Alfred Edward Housman : THESE, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's ...

Overdue: Demonstrating that I am not the technological genius I wish I were, I have only just today figured out the mysteries of trackback. ...