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Yearly Archives: 2013
Free-for-all in the Levant
The increasingly sectarian wars in the Middle East require a response by the UN not unilateral US intervention Continue reading
Nationalism and Religion in the Arab World
We have helped transform the aspirations of the region from secularism to sectarianism, from an evolutionary track leading toward democracy to one leading back to an Islamic theocracy. Continue reading
Original Sin
Original sin is a notion that grew out of a misreading of human nature. It should be discarded. Continue reading
Lawbreakers
The current game of chicken over the government default issue is putting enormous stress on the national consensus that we are a law-abiding society. Continue reading
Syria: What if they all are lying?
The gas attack that killed over a thousand Syrians on August 21 was sufficiently unpleasant to arouse the world’s conscience, but there is still a lot of disagreement over who did it. The common view in the western press is … Continue reading
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Egypt (updated on August 18, 2013)
Maybe our best policy for now is to lie low and look before we leap. Continue reading
War Clouds over Damascus
Yesterday’s reports of air strikes against Syrian military targets around Damascus signal a new and more active Israeli response to the Syrian civil war. We should be backing a UN Security Council action to negotiate a truce and establish a transitional government. Continue reading
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Carbon Tax or Keystone XL, Why Not Both?
The greens want a carbon tax with no pipeline, the power moguls want a pipeline with no carbon tax, the country will be best served by a compromise involving both. Continue reading
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Honi Soit Qui Mali Pense
The report that DOD is considering establishing a base somewhere in the Western Sahara is disquieting even if it is just for managing reconaissance drones. Continue reading
Tuaregs and Arabs in Northern Mali
A sensible Western response to the Northern Mali problem is to bribe the Tuaregs to defect Continue reading
Fractal Physics and human evolution
Human social evolution and the physics of water? Poetry, maybe, science, maybe not… Continue reading
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Happier New Year
We are capable of making 2013 a less unhappy year then 2012, if we want to. Continue reading
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