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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:22:54 -0700

I'd like to apologize to everyone who has tried to contact me recently. I have been very busy struggling to make ends meet and my work takes up all my time. I hope to be in touch with you all soon. I do not mean to be rude and apologize if I appear to be.

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Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:00:39 -0800

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Thu, 17 May 2007 20:24:25 -0700

Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld once wondered aloud whether we were creating more terrorists than we were killing. In counterinsurgency doctrine, that is precisely the right question. Victory in this kind of war comes when the enemy loses legitimacy in the society from which it seeks recruits and thus loses its "recuperative power."

The torture methods that Tenet defends have nurtured the recuperative power of the enemy. This war will be won or lost not on the battlefield but in the minds of potential supporters who have not yet thrown in their lot with the enemy. If we forfeit our values by signaling that they are negotiable in situations of grave or imminent danger, we drive those undecideds into the arms of the enemy. This way lies defeat, and we are well down the road to it.

This is not just a lesson for history. Right now, White House lawyers are working up new rules that will govern what CIA interrogators can do to prisoners in secret. Those rules will set the standard not only for the CIA but also for what kind of treatment captured American soldiers can expect from their captors, now and in future wars. Before the president once again approves a policy of official cruelty, he should reflect on that.

It is time for us to remember who we are and approach this enemy with energy, judgment and confidence that we will prevail. That is the path to security, and back to ourselves.

Charles C. Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. Joseph P. Hoar was commander in chief of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994.

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Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:45:55 -0800

"Books find their readers. And if they will not sell, well, let them lie around, absorb dust, rot, and disintegrate. There is always going to be a child who will fish a book out of the garbage heap. I was such a child, for what it's worth; so, perhaps, were some of you. ..."

- Joseph Brodsky, On Grief and Reason (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), p. 211

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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:15:03 -0700

I will try to add comments to my most recent posts in the next two weeks.