David Frum’s new vehicle is called “Frum Forum,” but judging from this debate over American foreign policy with Andrew Bacevich on Bloggingheads, it might as well be called “Frum’s Alternate Universe.” The clip below features Frum arguing that U.S. Full Article at Cato@Liberty

Have you noticed? More and more people are falling off the war in Afghanistan: George Will, Andrew Bacevich, Gary Wills, John Mearsheimer, and now...Karl Eikenberry, former American commander Afghanistan and present Ambassador there. Full Article at Huffington Post

"... the problem with the first lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan -- that the Pentagon needs to get better at waging 'small wars' -- is that it overlooks far more fundamental matters. Full Article at Big Think

"It fundamentally harms the long-term cause of global peace if America permits itself to move through history in a remorseless, irresponsible cycle wherein a Bush-type leader launches reckless wars and an Obama-type leader yanks our troops out. Full Article at Huffington Post

Now, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for tens of thousands more troops to stem the escalating insurgency, raising the question of how many more troops it would take to succeed. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

Despite the public relations campaign that has so many folks convinced the surge in Iraq was a success, the country is still a zoo. Full Article at at-Largely

Neoliberalism, which dominated the decade before 9/11, had an exuberantly simple vision. Communism and authoritarianism had failed; therefore markets and free elections were the answer. Full Article at The New York Times

The generals are still trying to bulldoze President Obama into going along with their eternal wars, and they’re not being a bit subtle about it. Full Article at at-Largely

This weekend I finally managed to have the time to sit down and watch this excellent PBS Frontline documentary called Obama’s War. Highly recommended and hats off to the folks at Frontline for a very good piece of work on an extremely important topic. Full Article at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

The late William Walker was a pioneer and founding father of Cayman’s offshore financial services industry who started one of the first law firms to specialise in offshore finance at a time when the Cayman Islands was home to only one bank, had no... Full Article at Cayman Net News

On Afghanistan Policy: Obama and the GOP Commenting on a column by Prof. Andrew Bacevich (republished on The Planetary Movement), I noted that looking backward (and some noted this some years ago), it was obvious that the number one foreign/military... Full Article at BuzzFlash

John Nagl, Bill Mayville and Stan McChrystal make a good argument for a counterinsurgency campaign, while Andrew Bacevich and an especially pithy Celeste Ward make a good argument against pursuing such a campaign. Full Article at Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish

Andrew Bacevich has an excellent column up at the Boston Globe on what the Afghanistan “surge” debate is really all about. Full Article at Conservative Heritage Times

This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Full Article at Christian Science Monitor

“Andrew Bacevich has a piece up at the Washington Post arguing that the U.S. should approach the war on terror like the Cold War; specifically we need a new doctrine of containment, which for Bacevich means everything from decapitation strikes (though... Full Article at Rational Review