Madman of Chu

Politics can not be conducted in ignorance of the history and culture of other nations.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

China Ad Astra

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Speaking in Sydney , Australia on Friday, February 23, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that a recent anti-satellite missile test an...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Mogadishu Calling

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The New York Times reports this week that U.S. Special Forces and air units were operating in Somalia during the recent fighting that drove...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Neocolonial Fog

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One question hangs over the entire Coalition enterprise in Iraq: "Why doesn't the Iraqi military have its own air force?" Or, ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Beijing vs. Jesus

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The execution last month in Heilongjiang of Xu Shuangfu, the founder of the Three Grades of Servants Church, was the latest milestone in an ...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Partition: No Magic Bullet

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As US leaders cast about for ideas on how to pull the Iraq conflict out of the jaws of catastrophe one notion that has become very vogue is ...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Exit Stage Three: The Eighteen Month Plan for Withdrawal from Iraq

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This week senior military leaders such as General Anthony Zinni and General John Abizaid have warned against a hasty withdrawal from Iraq. ...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Base Motives

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The Democratic electoral victory and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld are both hopeful developments for the war effort in Iraq, the former...
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Friday, November 03, 2006

Right Where They Want Us

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As the midterm election draws nigh the Bush administration remains on message concerning the Iraq conflict: the US cannot withdraw troops be...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

The Autumns of Our Discontent: Falluja 2004 to Amarah 2006

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As of today US forces in Iraq have suffered 73 fatalities during the month of October, already double the low casualty count of 30 reached d...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Two Dissidents

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Last week saw the murder and imprisonment, respectively, of two dissidents on opposite sides of the line that is becoming increasingly reifi...
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

A Tale of Two Cities

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Foreign occupying soldiers fire on a crowd of unarmed civilians, killing five. The soldiers are put on trial and a talented local lawyer ste...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Puzzling Out Hezbollah

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Despite the fact that fighting between it and Israel has, for the moment, ceased, Hezbollah and its media-savvy leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasral...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

The "Hail Mary" Oil Spot vs. the Praise Allah Oil Spot

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The New York Times reports today that the Iraqi government under Nuri al-Maliki is planning to construct a trench cordon around Baghdad to ...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006

China, North Korea, and the US

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A new sobriquet for North Korea could be drawn from an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel: The Land that Time Forgot . Everywhere else the Cold War ...
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After living in mainland China and Taiwan for four years and in Japan for one year I returned to the U.S. and earned a doctoral degree in Chinese history, which I teach at a college in New York. "Madman of Chu" reflects my belief that the study of the history and culture of other nations is indispensible to the conduct of modern politics. "Marriage Equality Amendment" is devoted to amending the U.S. Constitution to protect the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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