Justus For All

Daniel Drezner has some comments about the earthquake and tsunami in southeast asia, along with links of how you can help.
I have nothing in particular to add, except for my sympathy for the victims.

Clifford D. May offers some useful perspective on the war in Iraq:
Instead, the goal of terrorists is simply to slaughter and, of course, terrorize. By so doing, they mean to destroy our will to fight. Lose the will to fight and, by definition, you have been defeated -no matter how high-tech your weaponry, no matter […]

Washington Post:
‘It happened,’ said a jubilant Yushchenko, speaking in the capital at 2 a.m. Monday. ‘For 14 years, we were independent, but now we are free. . . .
Congratulations to the people of Ukraine.

Merry Christmas
Here’s hoping that all my readers have a safe and happy holidays.

Done With Mirrors talks about his ‘conversion’ to conservatism, or perhaps more truthfully his leaving of what today passes for liberalism. He has a lot of good reasons and good examples that are well worth reading.
This bit, on the second ammendment is very interesting though. It presents the argument in a way I […]

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH has some comments on the prisoner abuse scandal:
I am ashamed, of course. And profoundly saddened. Part of the reason this is happening too often? Untrained personnel, likely confused kids really, are being tasked with interrogations. But interrogators need to be trained to perform their tasks consistent with relevant law, convention, norms. They […]

ABC News:
Washington state’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that more than 700 belatedly discovered ballots from Seattle’s King County should be counted in the extraordinarily close governor’s race potentially enough to tip the balance in favor of Democrat Christine Gregoire.
King County is a Democratic stronghold, the biggest county in the state and the last to report […]

I wanted to highlight a political prisoner from North Korea this week, but my (admittedly cursory) researches were unable to find any specific ones, although there are plenty of sites dedicated to the plight of prisoners in that country in general.
I did find this very good web site: The Soon Ok Lee Project.
It is the […]

CNET News.com:
In the back of Carlos Owens’ southern Alaska yard, an 18-foot-tall steel robot is taking shape in the dim light of the winter afternoons.
The 26-year-old Owens is an Anchorage-area steelworker by day. In his own time, he’s hoping to become the creator of a true ‘mecha’–not a robot, exactly, but a gigantic exoskeleton that […]

Power Line has a post discussing some of the common criticisms of the Iraq War, in particular criticisms of Bush and Rumsfeld as leveled by Andrew Sullivan. Worth checking out. This conclusion is particularly interesting:
Is there a mega-theme that ties all of this together? One candidate is the modern liberal view that the […]