Recent content by Tommy Lucchese

Well, I wasn't expecting the Pee-Wee Herman defense.

I don't think it's a much of a surprise West has a bit of a self-control problem.

I don't see why we shouldn't have left A-stan by 2004 at the latest, Al Qaeda was already gone for the most part by 2003. But if we're going to persist in this folly, at least we're using a sound counterinsurgency strategy instead of putting force protection above all else.

Apparently they will take them out themselves if they think they're going to reconcile with the A-stan government. This has psywar written all over it.

I've been baffled by all the arrests and killings of Taliban chiefs in the last couple months, including half of Mullah Omar's Quetta Council and his right hand man. Why were the Pakistanis suddenly being so helpful about tracking these guys down (okay, telling where they knew they were) when...

Mike Doyle.

Well, basically, we want to replicate the Cold War between India and Pakistan. Check it out: First off, we need a series of negotiated agreements known as "redlines" that define what actions from either side will provoke a nuclear response. Then you need an actual Red Line, like the teletype...

I'm starting to wonder if that's not the point of this whole exercise.

I disagree, foreign policy should be a completely emotionless affair. The problem with pre-WW1 Europe was the balance of power at the time, not the techniques. Historically speaking, we are just spoiled because the Pax Atomica Cold War era was the most stable international system in human...

To get rich. That's why America balls so hard on the business front regardless of our poor rankings on education, people come here from all over the planet to get rich, because this is the easiest place in the world to do it.

First off, what two plots? And secondly, you have no way to know that they would happen. Arab terrorists are world-renowned for their incompetence.

I think I figured out how to resolve the very serious problems with Pakistan.

I'm sure it's unpleasant for the families, but once you start using appeals to emotion as reasons for doing something it can apply to any situation because there's always a downside for somebody. So, yeah, it doesn't look great, but Americans don't give a **** about geopolitics in the...

Foreign policy isn't missionary work.

This has the fingerprints of the ISI-D all over it.