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Category Archives: Politica
The Interpreter misinterprets nuclear deterrence
“Donald Trump, Perhaps Unwittingly, Exposes Paradox of Nuclear Arms.” So reads the headline of the latest offering from The Interpreter in The New York Times. Unfortunately, The Interpreter (Max Fisher), perhaps unwittingly, exposes his misinterpretation of nuclear deterrence.
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Tagged Albert Wohlstetter, deterrence, Herman Kahn, MAD, Max Fisher, mutual assured destruction, RAND, The Interpreter
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The Greatest Generation
Just Americans is mentioned in a story about Saburo Kitagawa by Michael Matza in the Philadelphia Inquirer (November 21).
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Tagged 100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, Japanese Americans, Just Americans, Michael Matza, Philadelphia Inquirer, Saburo Kitagawa, World War II
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Why more money is actually good for politics – and why editorial writers oppose it
A Washington Post report on the “fury at Murdoch” reveals a difference between British and American politics that challenges conventional wisdom on the role of money in elections.
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Tagged Britain, Citizens United, media, Obama, Rupert Murdoch
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The mind of a strategist
Announcing his plans to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year, President Obama declared, “We are starting this drawdown from a position of strength. Al Qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11.”
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Tagged Afghanistan, Dallas Mavericks, DIrk Nowitzki, Obama, Rick Carlisle, troop withdrawal
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Obama’s risible dance with corporate America
President Obama’s new pick for his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness — Steve Case — is even more ridiculous, and less qualified, than his previous selection, the hapless Jeffrey Immelt, the inadvertent downsizer of GE.
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Tagged AOL, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, Obama, Steve Case, Time Warner
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Who won World War II?
In a Wall Street Journal review (February 3, 2011) of Between War and Peace, a collection of historical essays on “How America Ends Its Wars,” Richard Hart Sinnreich argues against the view “that military victory solves nothing”:
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Tagged Belarus, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fascist Italy, France, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George S. Patton, Holland, Hossbach memorandum, Hungary, Imperial Japan, Joseph Stalin, Lebensraum, Nazi Germany, Poland, Richard Hart Sinnreich, Ukraine, WInston Churchill, World War II
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The sourcing charade (continued)
Some newspapers and media commentators belatedly addressed the shortcomings of anonymous sourcing several years ago. But the practice had been all too common for decades before then, and it continues today as if it had never been called into question.
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Tagged anonymous source, David D. Kirkpatrick, Helene Cooper, Leila Fadel, Mark Landler, Will Englund
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‘Blogs are not important now’
Technological triumphalists beware: After hearing about the transformative power of blogging for the past 15 years, of social media for the past five years, and of WikiLeaks for the past year, we now have evidence of how easily the disruptive … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Internet, Matt Richtel, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Queens University of Charlotte
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Immelt and Isiah
President Obama’s decision to appoint Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and chief executive officer of GE, as chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness will remind long-suffering Knicks fans of James Dolan’s choice, seven years ago, of Isiah Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged CFL, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Dow Index, GE, Isiah Thomas, Jack Welch, James Dolan, Jeffrey Immelt, Winchester
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