Bill Maher owns Cornel West, Mary Matalin and John Avlon in Islam debate
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in television Tags: political correctness, war against terror
Gita Sahgal on CagePrisoners – @amnestyuk and the legitimisation of the Taliban
15 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: regressive left, Taliban, war against terror
Does @amnestynz under this distinction?
11 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: civil disobedience, Gaza Strip, war against terror
Nick Cohen: Is @JeremyCorbyn a pacifist?
08 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: British politics, Nick Cohen, regressive left, war against terror
Hamas: By the Numbers
06 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror
.@JeremyCorbyn on Hamas and Hezbollah
04 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: British politics, war against terror
Hamas: By the Numbers
24 Feb 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror, war crimes
Nick Cohen: Is Jeremy Corbyn a pacifist?
10 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: British politics, war against terror
Just saying
09 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: war against terror
The Evolution of the 9-Month Fight for Mosul
09 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: ISIS, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Christopher Hitchens – Dispels two widespread illusions about islamic terror [2006]
31 May 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of religion, war and peace Tags: war against terror
Christopher Hitchens responds to @JeremyCorbyn on war against terror
26 May 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: political correctness, war against terror
A kind word for Senator Joe McCarthy after watching the movie Trumbo
23 May 2017 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, movies, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: communist party, espionage, free speech, McCarthyism, Red Menace, subversion, war against terror
Source: Bernstein, David, The Red Menace Revisited. Northwestern University Law Review.
The deciphered cables of the Venona Project identify 349 citizens, immigrants, and permanent residents of the United States who had had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence agencies… Further, American cryptanalysts in the Venona Project deciphered only a fraction of the Soviet intelligence traffic, so it was only logical to conclude that many additional agents were discussed in the thousands of unread messages…
Source: Venona Decoding Soviet Espionage in America By JOHN EARL HAYNES and HARVEY KLEHR Yale University Press 1999, Chapter 1.
So @NZGreens support Gulf wars 1 & 2?! The punitive mission to Afghanistan?
08 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, politics - USA Tags: Afghanistan, Gulf war, New Zealand Greens, Syria civil war, war against terror
The first Gulf War had UN security council approval. The 2nd Gulf War was approved in a way that provided employment to legal pedants and more importantly, just enough political cover for the Chinese and Russians back home and with their low-rent allies to avoid their veto.
The New Zealand Greens cannot go on about multinational responses than oppose wars with UN security council approval.
Naturally, the Greens opposed NZ participation in the Afghanistan war despite its clear-cut UN authorisation. NATO and other mutual defence treaties were specifically triggered after 9/11.
The USA and others were and still are at war with Al-Qaeda; they can use force against that enemy and those who harbour them. The Taliban was warned. A Wiki has this nice quote by Stone (1921):
When the territorial sovereign is too weak or is unwilling to enforce respect for international law, a state which is wronged may find it necessary to invade the territory and to chastise the individuals who violate its rights and threaten its security.
The 9/11 terrorists were air pirates. NATO and allied military entered Afghanistan to subdue the home base of these brigands and those that harboured them:
- Naval and military deployments against pirate’s lairs date back thousands of years.
- The first war of the USA was with the Barbary Pirates in 1801 to 1805, with another war in 1815. These pirates waged war against the shipping of other nations, seized cargoes and ships, and sold captives into slavery.
- Punitive expeditions against bandits were commonplace too, such as chasing Pancho Villa and his gang of bandits back into Mexico in 1916.
- The U.S. military recently attacked a Somalian maritime pirate camp to rescue hostages. EU naval forces have also attacked these pirate lairs to destroy boats and supplies.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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