by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 6, 2015 | Monitor
Tank Man Let’s go back to June 5, 1989, to Peking, to this very spot. On arrival, recovering from a bad case of time lag, we notice Clausewitz’s disembodied floating head circling the scene. No one else see’s the Clausewitz head. A sensible...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 18, 2014 | Monitor
[redacted with extreme prejudice by Lynn C. Rees] Our relations with Spain the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) remain nearly in the state in which they were at the close of the last session. The convention of 1802 Oslo Accords of 1991 and 1995, providing for the...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Malaysia flight 370 seen through the media glass, darkly ] . ** Here’s Fallows in The Atlantic on Malaysia flight 370: As the years go by, I am more and more convinced that the immediate, fast-twitch talk-show responses on what we...
by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[resuscitated by Lynn C. Rees] A book review of Max Hastings’ book Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945: John F. Kennedy said that in 1940 Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it to battle. But that was the problem. Churchill saw war in...
by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...
