Monday, November 30, 2009

Bits and Pieces - November 30, 2009

Fallows isn't giving up on the theme.

And Ambinder jumps in.

Marc Lynch says that the commentators are getting it wrong on Arab disappointment with Obama. Maybe we can make this a blogstorm, although too many of the blogs have swallowed the conventional wisdom.

An account of the negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev over the unification of Germany that shows why details are important. The "agreement not to extend NATO" apparently never reached the level of an international agreement.

One small attempt to find context in Iran.

Friends come and go, but enemies remain. One more weakness in the Soviet Union.

Retired Republican congressional representative Jim Leach would like to encourage his party to engage in civil discussion.

A violation of the Constitution to use military tribunals without a Congressional declaration of war?

Fighting a smarter war on cancer.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are your ears burning?

JLK

Cheryl Rofer said...

Naw, JLK, I never go back there any more.

mark said...

Napolitano is being disengenuous - he knows very well the Constitution does not spell out *how* the Congress must declare war and that international law plays a role here in determining whether military law is applicable or not. He also knows Ex Parte Quirin, Eisentrager and Hamdan precedents on tribunals/commissions.