The ink was barely dry on the quoted predictions that the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq would reduce violence and begin to normalize politics in Iraq when a rash of bombs killed 40 people in Baghdad. The government responded by (this is true) banning driving in Baghdad
According to a WorldTribune.com article , Blackwater USA now has a brigade-size force (1500–3500 personnel) available for low-intensity conflicts . While speaking at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition in Jordan, J. Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, stated: “There is clear potential to conduct security operations at a fraction of
Growing up as a child in World War II, I saw countless movies in which a German soldier in uniform, or a Gestapo agent in plain clothes, would utter the spine-chilling words “Papiere, Bitte” (”Papers, Please”). What made those words spine chilling was the fact that whoever they were uttered to was in imminent danger of arrest, imprisonment,
John Denson, in a book that covers the history of America’s large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describes the twentieth century was the bloodiest in all history—not coincidentally a century of statism. His book is A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt . More than 170 million people were killed by governments with 10 million
Don’t you just love the term “engagement” when it is used in the context of US relations with the world? It is hopelessly obscure and deliberately so. We are told that there are those who want to “engage” the world and those who want to “disengage” from the world. Thus says the Economist : So many foreigners are down on the US that polls reveal
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. You may put men on opposite sides of a river or a chain of mountains; may else part them by a tract of salt water; may give them, if you like, distinct languages; and may even colour their skins differently; but you cannot change their fundamental relationships.
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.