Reason’s John Pitney Jr. revisits “khaki socialism” in this interesting piece. A taste: When the United States does manage to crush Al Qaeda and its allies, the War on Terror will become part of this refrain. The argument will be that we can solve domestic problems if only we apply national resources as massively and single-mindedly as we did in the military struggle. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney recently told the

North Korea’s ruling party, government, and military newspapers, in a joint editorial, “pledged a ‘do or die’ campaign this year to guard its socialist system against possible attack by the United States and its allies,” this wire story notes. “In a New Year message Tuesday, the Stalinist country also demanded a joint inter-Korean struggle against what it called ‘warhawks’ aggression and acts of military provocation’ by outsiders’: […] The editorial

Writing for The Weekly Standard, Nicole Topham reports on Olympic security for the Salt Lake City games: Officials and terrorism experts have expressed concern about a potential attack on Utah’s stock of chemical munitions, which makes up 44 percent of the nation’s total reserves. But Governor Leavitt insists that state authorities have taken steps to prevent this. Without going into details, officials working to secure the Olympics indicate that their

Mona Charen says men are worth keeping around: Perhaps the new climate of danger — danger from evil men — will quiet the anti-male agitation we’ve endured for so long. For the threat from evil men can only adequately be met by good men. Why not cheer when the manly virtues are called for and demonstrated? Yeah. Now go bring me a beer, woman.

“Afghanistan hopes to lure back Western tourists,” the Telegraph reports. Though “most of Kabul’s hotels, including the supposedly five-star Inter-Continental have no running water, unreliable electricity and broken windows,” and the “airport runway has been destroyed by American bombs,” […] authorities remain optimistic. Plans have been announced to rebuild the great Buddhas, and according to the ministry of tourism the airport will reopen in a week’s time. However, the only

From Drudge Report: A Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital will be established in the coming year, Palestinian President Yassir Arafat promised Monday evening. In a speech broadcast by Palestinian media to mark the 36th anniversary of the founding of his Fatah movement, Arafat said that such a state was a ‘fundamental basis for international and regional security and stability’. The Palestinian state, he added, should be established in

George Will deconstructs the advent of the Euro: The common currency serves the political objective of changing Europe’s civic discourse by supplanting political reasoning with economic calculation. The euro is an instrument for producing a European superstate, which requires erasing from the nations’ populations their national identities, which means their distinctive memories. Here we go again, yet another European campaign against ‘false consciousness,’ this time meaning patriotism. “The euro is

“We continue to ignore the intellectual enablers of anti-Americanism at our peril.”

From Josh Gerstein’s story for ABCNews.com, “Silver Screen Assassin”: The new Iranian film Kandahar is winning raves from critics for its tale of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, but one of the film’s stars has a pretty interesting story of his own: American prosecutors say he’s a fugitive and a murderer. The movie’s credits identify him as Hassan Tantai, but authorities say he is actually David Belfield, an

Blogger was named alongside Google, Yahoo, Ebay, and Amazon, as one of The Seven Wonders of the Web by the UK’s Guardian Unlimited. Almost immediately, however, the Guardian has begun running articles calling on Blogger to “cease its cyber imperialism,” and to examine the “root causes” of the two recent hack attacks against it. As “the world’s sole weblog Superpower,” one Guardian pundit admonishes, “Blogger needs to re-evaluate the racist