Dec 2, 2006 Week of Nov. 27, 2006 by Cliopatria #1 Rick Perlstein: Whistling Past Dixie#2 Juan Cole: What's the military mission now? #3 Michael Ledeen: Unlike Previous Counterinsurgencies #4 Robert Higgs: War Weariness #5 Carolyn Eisenberg: Phased Withdrawal ... Nixon tried it in Vietnam, once most agreed the war was lost, and it cost 20,000 U.S. lives #6 Victor Davis Hanson: A civilization that has lost confidence in itself cannot confront the Islamists #7 Niall Ferguson: Some civil wars never end #8 Tom Palaima: Moral courage, free speech and open debate: Essentials of our democracy: The lessons of MLK and RFK #9 Jack Beatty: What did the Great War accomplish? #10 Jonathan Zimmerman: The Historical Fallacy
