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Nob Akimoto
Yes, yes, I know…
Go ahead and gloat.
http://gawker.com/5912071/lbj-school-of-pubic-affairs-apologizes-after-unfortunate-typo-goes-public
…and I can take or leave it if I please.
It was much easier to be an outsider at 25 than at 15. Not that it’s easy. Anxiety attacks, bipolar mood swings, a general inability to trust. There were still a lot of scars there. But there’s more perspective. Less drama. There’s coping mechanisms. There’s agency. And it’s gotten even easier at 28…I’m sure it’ll be easier still at 35.
At 15, I lacked those. At 15 I thought the best solution would be to set fire to my room and end my world in smoke and ash.
The fact that I’m here writing this post tells you that I failed. That detail’s not really important. Nor are the feelings about that particular incident. They’re for me and me alone.
No, what I’m writing about today is the process. The trail that leads to that day.
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Can we please remember that Edmund Burke was a WHIG politician, not some grand old Tory? Continue reading this post…
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Dear reader if you are anything like me you may on occasion grow tired of dealing with the daily inanity of what has come to be termed the political media. So for my next blog post I am going to deal with a subject dear and near to my heart: the works of Patrick O’Brian. Now like many fans of a nerdish bent I’m prone to overthinking the finer points of the fictional world.
Today’s point of analysis will be the birth year of Jonathan “Lucky Jack” Aubrey. Some spoilers may be contained within, so do be careful.
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Fellow League blogger Ethan’s post about the Obama foreign policy dredges up perhaps the biggest tension point regarding Obama’s foreign policy: Counter-Terrorism policy.
Somewhat coincidentally Administration Counter-Terrorism Adviser John Brennan gave a speech on Monday further clarifying the Administration’s CT policy.
As noted by Bush Administration legal adviser Jack Goldsmith, this comes as an additional follow up to an existing literature of legal justifications for the Administration’s broad targeting of Al Qaeda operatives. (For those that are inclined, Kenneth Anderson has a handy list of these explanations, speeches and rationales.)
The League’s dear readers may know that in my actual life (rather than my dashing online incarnation) “Lawfare” and national security issues are one of my main areas of study. And today I mean to examine the Obama Administration’s counter-terrorism policy, with an emphasis on targeted killings and justify why I count myself as a supporter. Read on if ye dare (I can’t promise that this will be entirely self-consistent)…
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