A good friend of mine recently told me how much he had recently been enjoying David Friedman’s writings. After coming across a link to Friedman’s blog recently I was reminded just how good a writer (and commentator) he is.
My friend told me how Friedman’s book The Machinery of Freedom (originally written in 1971), was shifting his [...]

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Via Richard Spencer, some clear thinking from Thomas Sowell in the midst of much saber-rattling over at the National Review:
Extending NATO right up to the borders of Russia has been one of those feel-good actions, much like our feel-good moralizing to other countries.
Are we really prepared to go to war with Russia if they send [...]

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In a column for The National Interest, Doug Bandow sums up my thoughts on the conflict, and America’s proper role in it (or rather out of it):
Russia had plausible justification for responding to Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia, though Moscow applied disproportionate force to achieve other ends. Nevertheless, the Caucasus never has been viewed as [...]

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Just a thought: Russia and Georgia… more similar than different?
For more on the conflict, I highly recommend this interview of Pat Buchanan (who is about as far from pro-Russian as anyone) by Scott Horton of Anti-War.com

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“To hawks, it is always 1938, and every adversary is the next Hitler.”

Given the recent saber-rattling from US policy makers over Georgia, this article by Ted Galen Carpenter (of the Cato Institute) seems particularly on point:

The World War II experience is so pervasive in American culture that it’s nearly imprinted on the national DNA. People [...]

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I don’t get a chance to applaud George Bush often, but I figure that it’s particularly appropriate in the case of Bush deciding to attend the Summer Olympics in Beijing.  I find it interesting that Bush is doing the right thing despite John McCain and Barack Obama both being on the record stating that they [...]

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So sad but true…

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