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I'm not sure how you can speak meaningfully about such a vast and divergent bunch of people. What does a man who was 18 in '64 have in common with a man who was born that year? When the latter was...

Fair enough. To clarify, I was discussing garnering public support for a policy, and operating on the assumption that combining a moral argument with 'sound military strategic planning principles'...

Rob,

I think I may have said something like this already, but I think hard-nosed honesty is the key to winning long-term public support for operations. For one thing, it means the public will be...

Gotcha. I read 'fat' and my mind added 'and happy'.

I'd point out that the extremists haven't been reluctant to take Saudi money, and the Saudis--or at least the ones with the money--enjoy a...

I'm unconvinced of this point. That American 'gangsta' rappers remain immersed in a culture that not infrequently kills them after they've become fairly rich suggests their goal is not, in fact,...

It seems to me that the Bunker & Sullivan piece on gangs is relevant to the 'hospitable environment' discussion. I would think that gangs in the US--especially gangs such as MS 13, if they gain a...

I'd think a quantification of the inconclusive and ongoing insurgencies would be as important as the quantification of the victorious insurgencies.

Nail on the head. If one wants to enlist Liberal support for 'foreign adventures,' one needs to take the liberal view of the US into account. Chomsky, while, ah, problematic, illustrates this view...

While not an academic myself, my father is a professor. Based on conversations with my fathers and his peers, it is much the same at my school across all departments.

On the topic of military...