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Well, we can re-fight the Y2k election, I suppose, not that there'd be any point in it. Dems - and poorly informed international critics - like to point out that Gore received more votes nationwide, but everyone should know that direct vote totals are skewed by the American electoral system...

If by "less involved" you mean, "accorded no special privileges or advantages" then, on democratic principles, I would respond "yes." [b] The EU remains a work-in-progress. In its current form, it is decidedly not a positive for "everyone" - such as non-French agricultural and fishing...

AAA, The US certainly can't allow things to spin out of control, and it certainly has to oppose meddling from Iran to whatever extent possible, but it also has to keep its eye on the longer term. A contingent inflammation of Islamofacist emotions was unavoidable: We are, after all, making...

Nothing "interesting" is entirely "pointless" in my opinion. I even find some of the articles that msfe links to worth reading, even when I strong disagree with their reasoning and their presumptions. As for France: France's fiscal and related economic difficulties appear to be a bit more...

It's not my aim to "expose" Debka or argue about it. I find the site interesting, but there are some people I respect who make a point of not reading Debka, just as there are others whom I respect - yourself included - who like it. I'm merely interested in getting a realistic sense of how...

Interesting speculation on French policy and attitudes in relationship to France's dire economic and demographic situation: http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/04/Extremesolutions.shtml EXCERPTS:

I think you're off base here, and I suspect that nothing would have pleased the the radical Islamists more than some attempt to suppress the rallies forcibly. I don't think anyone really knows how likely it is that freeIraqis will vote for the establishment of an "Islamic government," but...

ahem, you appear to be confusing Gen. Barzan Suleiman Tikriti the recently captured Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikrit, Saddam’s half-brother, captured Thursday. Tsk-tsk. As much as I would like to see a good test of Debka's accuracy, all they say is that Syria has made an "offer" to "expel"...

I don't know that you're right, but the two images are not so different on a psychological level: Both offer symbols of the Arab world as "disarmed" (this inevitable dream-symbolic pun has already turned up in anti-war propaganda) - as helpless maimed orphans in the world. Initial...

From today's WSJ Best of the Web: Protecting Iraq's Antiquities The Wall Street Journal (link requires WSJ.com subscription) reports that the looting at Baghdad's Iraq National Museum wasn't as bad as early reports had it:

I think you know that I agree with your overall position in large part, but, to be fair to the Arabs, their predicament is by no means entirely of their own making. Europe drew their maps while in the process of abandoning a frequently disastrous colonial experiment. Over the same period, all...

Bennett is fairly precise: He's not referring to industry per se, but to the Industrial Revolution as advanced especially by Britain and the US, with an emphasis on values of individualism, free markets, and technological and social progress. Though countries other than the US have adopted...

Tell me if I've got this right: You're one of those extremely un-stupid people who believes that a President runs the economy, and that economic cycles directly correspond to terms in office? From the perspective of economic cycles, Clinton was very lucky. He did a pretty good job, all...

Right - but the "smart" people all thought the arms race would spin out of control, even if we didn't blow ourselves up first. Stupid ol' Reagan and his people thought you had to stand up to the Soviets. He did. They caved. Not only did the arms not spin out of control - the Soviets withdrew...

Well, that's kind of the point: The fervency of anti-Americanism that we've recently seen, both in the "peace" protests and all the more from the Islamofascists, can't be explained solely by the intrinsic natures of the war in Iraq, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or, for that matter, of...

Of course, some may prefer to think that, say, Andre Glucksmann, who's been a leading French intellectual for more than a generation, is merely being "pretentious" when he joins his co-authors with this observation: To me, this description isn't far off from the "nasty mess" that Bennett...

The Fault by Pascal Bruckner, Andre Glucksmann, and Romain Goupil translated by Thomas Lewis LeMonde, April 14, 2003 What a joy to see the jubilant Iraqi people celebrating their liberation and … their liberators! Several months ago, France claimed it was channeling the warlike...

I never had any trouble acknowledging that Blix wanted months more. It doesn't mean that he would have been successful, or htat it would have been the proper policy.

Syria may not be "next" in the sense of being the next regime that the US army is sent to dismantle, but it may still qualify as the next or even the current target. I'm thinking there are two possibilities, and they may have more to do with the correlation of forces within Syria than with...