Copyright 2010 Clifford May Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:40:02 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Clifford May :: Writings http://www.cliffordmay.org cliff@defenddemocracy.org (Clifford May) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.cliffordmay.org/7917/the-worst-of-time Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as "the first great American Century." He would have wanted the United... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7891/muslims-mainstream-media-madness Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Wow! The Washington Post has identified "rabble-rousing outsiders!" I don't think I've heard language like that since Southern segregationists complained about young civil-rights activists descending on Mississippi. So who are these interlopers stirring... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7856/plan-b-war-on-terror Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Back in 2007, those of us assigned as "expert advisers" to the Baker-Hamilton Commission were given a straightforward assignment: Come up with a plan to salvage the deteriorating situation in Iraq. Few of us thought that was possible. Only a small... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7825/taboo-of-intellectuals Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist. On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely have questions they would like answered so they can decide... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7787/sanctions-plus Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Suppose the tough, new sanctions passed into law by the U.S., the E.U., Canada, and Australia do not cause Iran's Islamist rulers to halt their illicit development of nuclear weapons, curb their sponsorship of terrorism, and reduce their brutalization of... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7765/dear-mayor-bloomberg Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST Your Honor: In regard to the proposal to build an Islamic center at the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack in Manhattan, I commend you for saying: "Everything the United States stands for and New York stands for is tolerance and openness, and I think it's... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7737/imagine-a-nuclear-iran Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST It's been said that a diplomat is a gentleman paid to go abroad and lie for his country. Sometimes, however, diplomats slip up and tell the truth. In response to a question at the hopefully named Aspen Ideas Festival this month, Yousef al-Otaiba, the... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7719/from-berlin-to-jerusalem Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST Last month, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the mufti of Jerusalem, called on Palestinians to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which he said was "threatened by the plans of the enemies of God," by which he meant Israelis. It should go without saying that this is a... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7692/our-friends-the-saudis Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST Last week, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah was welcomed to the White House by President Obama. According to the Washington Post, their meeting provided an opportunity "to demonstrate the friendship between their countries, a point the king was particularly... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7671/a-bipartisan-moment Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST In the film Charlie Wilson's War, the rich and sexy political activist Joanne Herring asks the eponymous representative from Texas: "Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?" Wilson deadpans: "Well, tradition mostly." So when Congress breaks... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7642/ayatollah-victims Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Iran's rulers have long embraced Stalin's impeccable logic: "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election; the people who count the votes do." So a year ago this month, they held an election and blatantly falsified the results. Iranians... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7622/iran-against-containment Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST President Obama's policy of "engagement" with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilateralist cowboy — with whom Iran's theocrats did not want to engage. But a year and... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7592/hamas-wants-a-final-solution Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Israel is at war, and if Israel were to be defeated, much of the world would not shed wet tears. What would happen after such a defeat? No one can seriously doubt that Hamas has genocidal intentions. Abdallah Jarbu, Hamas's deputy minister of religion,... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7553/obama-national-security-strategy Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Is it possible to defeat an enemy we don't understand? That is only one of the questions that ought to occur to anyone reading President Obama's new National Security Strategy (NSS). Administration officials and loyalists have been trying to put the best... http://www.cliffordmay.org/7511/kurds-the-second-israel Thu, 27 May 2010 09:00:00 EST HALABJA, Iraq — Twenty-two years ago, in this dusty town hard up against the mountainous border with Iran, Saddam Hussein's military used chemical weapons to murder 5,000 Kurdish men, women, and children. The Halabja massacre was only the most infamous...