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Beyond the Water’s Edge

146
8 months ago
by Monotreme in

Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor Arthur H. Vandenberg

Editor’s Note: This arti­cle was orig­i­nally sched­uled to run on the morn­ing of Sep­tem­ber 13. Because of the increased inter­est in the topic, its pub­li­ca­tion has been moved for­ward to the evening of Sep­tem­ber 12. As a result, we will not be run­ning our usual Thurs­day morn­ing article.

Pol­i­tics stops at the water’s edge.
— Sen­a­tor Arthur Hen­drick Vandenberg

Arthur Van­den­berg was the Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor from Michi­gan from 1935 until his death in 1951. Sen­a­tor Van­den­berg was the chair of the Sen­ate For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee and worked with Pres­i­dent Harry S Tru­man to cre­ate the United Nations. After World War II, when Van­den­berg pub­licly changed his stance from iso­la­tion­ism to inter­na­tion­al­ism, he coined the famous maxim above.

Mitt Rom­ney was born in Detroit in 1947 to a Michi­gan Repub­li­can polit­i­cal fam­ily. Romney’s father was the Gov­er­nor of Michi­gan from 1963 to 1969 and his mother made a failed run at the Class 1 Sen­ate seat once held by Van­den­berg and now held by Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tor Deb­bie Stabenow.

Repub­li­cans used to actively par­tic­i­pate in a mus­cu­lar for­eign pol­icy in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Demo­c­ra­tic Pres­i­dents and Con­gress­men. There were giants in the earth in those days. In a time before small-​​minded Repub­li­cans trum­peted small-​​minded ideas like the Agenda 21 con­spir­acy the­ory or the sup­posed impo­si­tion of Sharia law on U.S. com­mu­ni­ties, Repub­li­cans actu­ally worked side-​​by-​​side with Democ­rats to bring to life Vandenberg’s maxim. What­ever dif­fer­ences we might have across the aisle in the halls of Con­gress were set aside so the United States could present a united for­eign pol­icy front.

No more. (more…)

Open Mic October 28

10
1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

Real estate under­wa­ter in Bangkok

There are ter­ri­ble floods in Bangkok. The United Nations voted to end the mil­i­tary cam­paign in Libya. A Marine vet­eran of the Iraq war was wounded in the Occupy Oak­land protest. The deficit super­com­mit­tee now has com­pet­ing (hos­tile?) pro­pos­als. Rick Perry, real­iz­ing his lim­i­ta­tions, may skip some debates. It turns out that the basic chem­i­cals for life are made inside stars. The Copi­ale Cipher has been cracked, and an eigh­teenth cen­tury secret soci­ety had its secrets revealed.

Don’t see an arti­cle on a par­tic­u­lar topic, but want to talk about it some­where? This is Open Mic. Talk about what­ever you want, but stay respectful.

We cre­ate a new Open Mic every week to give a clean slate, but feel free to add to this topic at any time.

Three Libyan Questions

19
1 year ago
by Armchair Warlord in

The war in Libya appears to be over. Gaddafi’s régime has been com­pletely destroyed, his army van­quished and his sup­port­ers fled or in hid­ing. The long-​​time despot’s body is cur­rently a mor­bid tourist attrac­tion pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into the cir­cum­stances of his death.

Given that, I’d like to make some obser­va­tions and ask some ques­tions of the read­er­ship here. (more…)

Open Mic October 21

13
1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

Another lively week has passed. Sen­ate Repub­li­cans blocked a vote on whether to put teach­ers and police and fire­fight­ers to work. Libya’s dic­ta­tor was killed, pos­si­bly by his own body­guards. There was yet another Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial debate. Her­man Cain con­tin­ues to rise in the polls, and now just beats Rom­ney in the Real Clear Pol­i­tics roundup. Occupy Wall Street still occu­pies Wall Street. The DJIA had a mixed week. Two earth­quakes shook Berke­ley within six hours. Lions and tigers and bears (oh, my!) were set loose in Ohio. Astronomers caught sight of the birth of a planet. Another dead satel­lite is falling. That’s just for starters.

Don’t see an arti­cle on a par­tic­u­lar topic, but want to talk about it some­where? This is Open Mic. Talk about what­ever you want, but stay respectful.

We cre­ate a new Open Mic every week to give a clean slate, but feel free to add to this topic at any time.

Reports: Gadhafi Dead

45
1 year ago
by Monotreme in

Col. Moam­mar Gad­hafi. Source: CNN.

CNN and other cred­i­ble news sources are report­ing that Colonel Moam­mar Gad­hafi has been shot while run­ning away from rebel forces. Clearly, this is break­ing news and may change. Come here to dis­cuss the cur­rent reports as they are updated through the day.

Reuters

New York Times

 

The Guns of Ramadan

13
1 year ago
by Armchair Warlord in

As I write this, the new Libyan gov­ern­ment is in the process of sys­tem­at­i­cally crush­ing the remain­ing resis­tance to its rule from Gaddafi’s few remain­ing sup­port­ers — a mix of fanat­i­cal adher­ents to his per­son­al­ity cult, and for­eign mer­ce­nar­ies. The war is effec­tively over. It’s time for some analy­sis and ret­ro­spec­tive. With the ben­e­fit of hind­sight, things are much clearer, but I would have said basi­cally the same things months ago. (more…)

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