The New Wiki Warfare
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 28th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
The New Wiki Warfare
Ralph Peters, New York Post
The recent WikiLeaks debacle, which will result in American, allied and Afghan deaths, drives home how inadequate our antique laws on war are in the new millennium.We live in a lawless age, when it comes to our security. A hypernarcissist such as WikiLeaks' Julian Assange puts thousands of lives at risk by e-publishing classified documents, and we have no legal answer.Every day, foreign powers and rogue players attack our nation's computer networks, attempting to steal secrets, plant sleeper programs or just create havoc. We have no practical legal framework for counterattacks….
The Parent Model
David Brooks, New York Times
During the first half of this year, German and American political leaders engaged in an epic debate. American leaders argued that the economic crisis was so bad, governments should borrow billions to stimulate growth. German leaders argued that a little short-term stimulus was sensible, but anything more was near-sighted. What was needed was not more debt, but measures to balance budgets and restore confidence.The debate got pointed. American economists accused German policy makers of risking a long depression. The German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, countered,…
Progressives Against Progress
Fred Siegel, City Journal
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called “a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress.” Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. Regarding human nature as essentially both beneficent and malleable, liberals, like their socialist cousins, argued that with the aid of science and given the proper social and economic conditions, humanity could free itself from its cramped carapace of greed and distrust and enter a realm of true freedom and happiness. Conservatives,…
Not Ready for Conversation on Race
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chicago Tribune
Virginia Sen. Jim Webb recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege” that really brought home the foolishness of pining for a “conversation on race.” The headline itself was a device meant to drive conservatives to cheering, liberals to howling, and the whole of them to page-clicking and reading. Webb's piece was about affirmative action, and his argument was much more nuanced than the headline — sympathetic to the argument for historical redress for African-Americans, unsympathetic to hazy appeals to…