Monthly Archive: June, 2005

In one of its many ill-considered decisions of the last decade, the United Nations responded to the attempted extermination of Bosnia’s Muslims by imposing an arms embargo on all parties to the conflict. It was a classic of moral, economic, and military equivalence leading to horrific results. On side was a large, mechanized army that controlled a massive industry for manufacturing and exporting arms, and which it was using in an unequal battle to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocents....

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...

A Last Memorial Day Thought: It will always be a day of gratitude for me, too. Before I left Korea in 2002, I had asked for an assignment in Germany, and was initially told that I would be sent there. Like most things the Army promises you, the assignment fell through (after my wife and I had spent two months studying German). Many people in my branch who were assigned to Germany were later sent to Iraq. As the spirits...

Then again, the Administration’s “other options” might be more along these lines. Thanks to Art Rush for forwarding the link.

Then again, the Administration’s “other options” might be more along these lines. Thanks to Art Rush for forwarding the link.

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...