Category Archives: International

1968, 2024 and campus unrest

Posted on May 7, 2024 by politicswestchesterview

If ever there was a time when people in positions of power should learn from history, that would be today. And yet we see leaders unable to change the script of campus protests and violence that threaten disaster for Democrats … Continue reading →

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Gaza (first circulated 10/14/23)

Posted on January 6, 2024 by politicswestchesterview

(I wrote and circulated this to my list almost 2 months ago. Of course, at the time I hoped that I was wrong, but my prediction that Gazans will be removed from Gaza has been borne out every day by … Continue reading →

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Ukraine and Chester County

Posted on March 27, 2022 by politicswestchesterview

It has become so painful to read the newspaper or watch TV news this month… one can almost envy the Russian people who, by and large, apparently aren’t allowed to find out that there is a war going on or … Continue reading →

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Anarchism / barbarism / terrorism: ISIS and Europe

Posted on November 21, 2015 by politicswestchesterview

To me, it is impossible not to look at the horrors of the past few weeks as history. As soon as they happen, they join a long train of horrors stretching back to the beginning of recorded history. It is … Continue reading →

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The Night of the Bulldozers (Charleston, 3/18/03)

Posted on March 18, 2015 by politicswestchesterview

Poetry and politics can meet. “The Night of the Bulldozers” was written twelve years ago this evening, on a trip to Charleston SC, when the then US president announced that the attack against the then Iraqi dictator was about to … Continue reading →

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Responsibility in the country, responsibility in the world

Posted on August 10, 2014 by politicswestchesterview

How is President Obama like the United States? Answer: both get blamed whatever they do. In the continuing antics of the US House of Representatives, the Boehner team wants President Obama to wait for their permission to do anything. After … Continue reading →

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Russia between democracy and Putin

Posted on March 21, 2014 by politicswestchesterview

As a chess player, I read with extra interest the article “What is Garry Kasparov’s Next Move? The great chess champion brings his knowledge to the games of Sochi, global politics and computer intelligence” by Ron Rosenbaum, Smithsonian Magazine, March … Continue reading →

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Learning from maps and history: The case of Ukraine

Posted on March 4, 2014 by politicswestchesterview

I’m a map person. I think maps help us visualize the abstract. I found this one particularly interesting, from Dave Schuler, “The Ukraine Crisis in Three Maps,” Outside the Beltway, 3/1/14: (For the percentages, see the map in Springtime of … Continue reading →

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“Invade and Occupy” — McCain and Graham

Posted on February 4, 2014 by politicswestchesterview

Washington, Feb. 5, 2014 In a bold new proposal to break the deadlocks in Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) proposed that the United States invade and occupy those countries. “Those governments are engaged in antagonistic behavior not only … Continue reading →

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Tired of “weary of war”

Posted on September 10, 2013 by politicswestchesterview

I’m tired of hearing that Americans don’t want to attack Syria because we are “weary of war.” There are many better reasons not to go to war. If we weren’t war-weary, would we look around for some other country to … Continue reading →

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