Archive for the ‘Terrorism and its control’ Category

May 11th, 2013

The Benghazi attack was irregular warfare not terrorism.

April 26th, 2013

Yes, Malkin is always wrong. Goes without saying. But what if she’s right about Grover Norquist?

April 25th, 2013

Incentives and the Tarnaevs: You get what you measure, even in the counter-terrorism business.

April 23rd, 2013

Or is he a piece of Breitbart fakery?

April 19th, 2013

It’s always dangerous to make judgments while something like the marathon bombing/murder of MIT policeman/shootout in Watertown/search is underway.  But recognizing that there is much I don’t know yet, my tentative judgment is that the leadership of my former city has kind of lost it.  As I understand it, A murderer, probably armed and dangerous, [...]

April 16th, 2013

Obviously a terrible tragedy yesterday in Boston. It is all the more sinister because of what the finish line of a Marathon typically represents: a supportive, celebratory place of individual achievement. I have finished two Marathons in my life, the 2004 Richmond and 2005 Marine Corps races. For me, these races were culminations of my [...]

March 6th, 2013

What extraordinary claim of Presidential power is Holder supposed to have made? If it’s unlawful to kill U.S. citizens on American soil without legal process, then police snipers can’t take out hostage-takers. If military force can’t be used domestically Washington had no right to use military force against the Whiskey Rebellion, Lincoln was wrong to order the killing of Confederate soldiers, and Eisenhower shouldn’t have sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock.

December 16th, 2012

Let’s reflect on the two real lessons of the Battle of Newtown. First, the Second Amendment is not about hunting animals and punching paper, it’s about winning a war against the government, and here we have a man who didn’t whine about tyranny, or run and hide: he took up arms like a Real American, [...]

December 7th, 2012

A trial balloon that Obma will end the War on Terror, and a (British) patriotic sea-shanty.

November 21st, 2012

Foxman´s absurd scenario of a worldwide plague of Hamas-type rocketry.


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