Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
I am almost certain now that behind the scene negotiations are going on among the US, France, Russia, etc., on how the Iraqi spoils should be divided. Once they agree on who gets to keep what contracts and debt claims,…
I wonder if USS Clueless’ team are mostly being sarcastic (e.g., in the choice of name for their space ship). They quote a translation of this Le Monde op-ed and pretend to be bewildered by its “arrogance and condescension”. But…
Drezner on “we saved their cheese-eating asses”. (I stumbled on the link at vpostrel.com.) Here’s my two cents: It’s simply incorrect to say that the US “saved France from Hitler” without mentioning the Allied war effort in general. Suppose an…
Andrew Sullivan (it’s almost bad taste to link to his weblog — to do so is to assume the reader doesn’t know or remember, i.e., is a downright ignoramus) quotes an e-mail saying Note also that Kaiser Wilhelm was positive that…