by Charles Cameron | Mar 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the warnings, the lack of response, the tragedy, and a diagnosis of the underlying, near-universal human condition ] . Devastation wrought by the Lesser Sludge, Snohomish County, WA, March 2014 ** Hear ye! Hear ye! The most stunning...
by zen | May 1, 2013 | Monitor
My friend Dave Schuler who blogs at the excellent The Glittering Eye and on foreign policy at Dr. James Joyner’s Outside the Beltway , queried me as to what I thought of the Boston Bombers in light of the concept of the Superempowered Individual. For those not...
by zen | Jan 30, 2013 | Monitor
The Obama administration, though they would not characterize it as such nor have much desire to acknowledge it at all, have attempted a strategic detente with the “moderate” elements of political Islam. This policy has not been entirely consistent; Syria,...
by zen | Jan 25, 2013 | Monitor
The Center for Combating Terrorism at West Point released a report on domestic terrorism that raised hackles for a number of reasons. Despite the dismissals of liberal political pundits, the reasons for objections to the CTC report are legitimate but they did not need...
by Mark Phillips | Oct 25, 2012 | Monitor
By: Mark Phillips Risk management and wicked messes like Afghanistan.