I'm talking about history as a process, not as a discourse. My Eurocentrism is a very carefully chosen perspective, and not one that is unmindful of o...
We shouldn't kid ourselves: history, as the discovery of world - as opposed to mundus (a temporary pit stop on the way to paradise according to script...
Well, that's one of the biggest problems with quietism Benkei: you know damned well we're going to bomb the crap out of ISIS, but you are so opposed t...
I fear it's too late Moliere: the frog and the bear are off and running to satisfy their thirst for vengeance. Putin murdered hundreds of his own in t...
Well, I think perhaps my call for a declaration of war is potentially misleading. I'm trying to get past just these types of ad hoc invasions. We need...
Of course the nub of the problem is that we'll only see the end of ISIS by destroying it. One thing we know for sure: terrorist attacks which rely on ...
This is nothing more than cheap politics - it's actually 12 Republican governors now. We're taking 25,000 by the end of the year in Canada: Obama's on...
Don't get me wrong Tiff: I'm a flaming liberal and the ghettoization of Muslims in much of Europe makes me very angry. But we don't really have that i...
It's easy to point the finger at France for policies that lead to radicalization. But I don't see how that bears on the question as to how we should d...
I find it amusing that jamalrob and I are accused of repeating neo-conservative memes for daring to suggest that we should pay at least cursory attent...
You seem to have some basic facts wrong ssu. The Sunnis are a minority in Iraq. The reason for going to war against ISIS is their attack on our ally F...
My limited understanding of ISIS was challenged by this article in the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-...
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