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Back in 2008, Romney denounced Barack Obama for saying he would do what he later did: strike terrorist targets in Pakistan without playing “Mother, may I?” with the ISI. He should be reminded of that, often.
Archive for the ‘Terrorism and its control’ Category
October 24th, 2011
Take it from someone on a plane: guns in *checked* baggage are not a security threat. The mental metonymy that makes them seem so is a liberty threat, and one that I hope our institutions will forestall.
October 15th, 2011
Category: Terrorism and its control, Watching Conservatives
The Lord’s Resistance Army was officially designated as a terrorist organization by Colin Powell in 2001. When President Obama sent troops to help fight them, Rush Limbaugh described that as an attack on Christians. Will any Republican Presidential candidate dare to disagree with Limbaugh? Will any reporter ask one to?
October 5th, 2011
Category: Political Science, Terrorism and its control
It’s often said that terrorist groups are a relatively minor threat to the U.S. compared to plain-old states. That’s true. But due to their unique interest in failed rather than strong states, they’re a profound threat to the people who live where they’re based.
September 11th, 2011
Category: Personal moment, Terrorism and its control
I hope our experiences of trauma, heroism, and loss—and, yes, our subsequent mistakes and misdeeds related to that day—will increase our empathy for so many others who endure natural and man-made catastrophes across the globe.
September 10th, 2011
I fly twice today on the dreaded date (It’s already 9/11 in England, despite what the post time says above), from London to Chicago and then on to San Francisco. I’ve had this routing and schedule before and was sad to see that there are more unsold seats today than usual. I didn’t book on [...]
August 4th, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Terrorism and its control
There is a craft to public management—in police work no less than other things. It must be done well, or lives will be lost.
July 25th, 2011
This case tests my own ambivalent views.
July 23rd, 2011
Category: Terrorism and its control
Raskolnikov only killed two people in his efforts to become a superman. Today he’d be reading about dirty bombs and fertilizer on the internet.
July 22nd, 2011
Category: Terrorism and its control
The atttack in Norway seems to have been the work of a single man, a Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik, a Mason with a grudge against Muslims. That isn’t good news.
