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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Weighing in on Iraq (2002)

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PREFACE: I wrote this for my school newspaper column to record my opinion of the confrontation with Iraq. It still holds up well today. M...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

New York Times writer posits "Thank you for your service" is offensive to veterans. I disagree.

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Byron Wong at bigWOWO asks: Hey [Eric LC], I just saw this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-m...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Quick reaction to the proposed AUMF against ISIS

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See Letter from the President -- Authorization for the Use of United States Armed Forces in connection with the Islamic State of Iraq and th...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

An appeal to indict the Saddam regime for genocide (1997)

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Note: The below text is copied from here . I post it with the qualifications that there seems to be no web presence for the "Kurdish Or...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Moral dilemma, Lone Survivor, Torture Report

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Comment about the possible declassification of a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the use of torture in the War on Terror:...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Fall of Mosul and legal authority for anti-ISIS strikes

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The Wall Street Journal reports The Fall of Mosul . I am angry, but there isn't more I can add to what I said to express my anger in ...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Regarding pundits and David Brooks's "Saving the System"

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In his April 28, 2014 article, Saving the System , New York Times columnist David Brooks laments the retreat of the aspirational, American-l...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Infuriating

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Headline from the Sydney Morning Herald: Al-Qaeda claims key Iraqi city of Fallujah . Excerpt: ISIS fighters have steadily asserted their...
Friday, September 6, 2013

The Constitutional rule of law for war was skirted by President Clinton, reinforced by President Bush, and degraded by President Obama

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PREFACE: This post is a sequel to Thoughts on the Syria Dilemma , where I responded to Byron Wong of bigWOWO's question, "I was jus...