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Tag Archives: Damien Cave
so romantic: but NIMBY
Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading
motley crew: its Huck Finn time
Sympathy vote. The gang that couldn’t slingshot straight. This is a ridiculous story; equal parts situation comedy, black comedy and farce. It looks like warfare depictions from the fall of Constantinople. The idea is to show how courageous the Free … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bashar Al Assad, Brown Moses blog, Damien Cave, FDR and Somoza, Free Syrian Army, Free Syrian Army catapult, Free Syrian Army slingshot pipe bombs, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, robert fisk, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad Mosque
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better hate than never
On the one side, an interesting article, if rather generic and redundant. Its genuineness and authenticity is derived ostensibly from leaving the baloney and political correctness at the door revealing the voice of the silent majority. But it also dredges … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abdel Karim Shrair, Arab Israel conflict, Austin Tice, Damien Cave, Innocence of Muslims film, Joe Stork HRW, John Wayne, jonathan winters, Lucian Freud, Mohamad Morsi, Mona Eltahawy, Phil Silvers, Piers Morgan, Sayyid Qutb, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, Victor Davis Hansen
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the resisters
To some, Sheikh Scapa is another terrorist, to others he is a martyr engaged in a holy act, pleasurable to Allah in taking out the enemy. Resistance, violent and deadly resistance being morally acceptable given the nature of Israel’s occupation … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Damien Cave, Efim Weinstein, Free Syrian Army, Judge Young-Gefer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohamad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, robert fisk, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia executions, Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim Scapa, Steven Plaut
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guide to the perplexed: how to lose a war
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. What next? How much the academic think-merchants should share in the responsibility for these messy predicaments is not really quantifiable. But judging from what he read and see, the American government would have found a better guide … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Al Nusra Front, ambassador James Jeffrey, Andrew Tabler, Cardinal Spellman, Clausewitz, Damien Cave, David Crist The Twilight War, Edward Sorel, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Eisenstadt, Moises Saman, Otto Dix, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Syria War, The Washington institute
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