The Seinfeld Strategy

Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Iraq, War | No Comments »

Michael Fullilove on America’s ‘Seinfeld’ strategy in Iraq, which means doing the opposite of everything your instincts tell you to do, a tactic once tried by Seinfeld's Costanza: First, military and diplomatic resources are finite and should be directed towards your ...

The Spanish Civil War

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in War | No Comments »

Edward Rothstein writes on the ambiguities of the Spanish Civil War. The civil war, in fact, had more to do with Spain than with fascism. Hugh Thomas’s encyclopedic “Spanish Civil War” reveals stupefying patterns of legislative failure and manic enterprise in ...