Taranto misses the real joke because he hasn’t been reading his Weekly Standard

Taranto misses the real joke because he hasn’t been reading his Weekly Standard:

A smaller nation might appropriately feel that its national interest begins and ends at its borders, so that

its foreign policy is almost always in a defensive mode. A larger nation has more extensive interests. And

large nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of

today, inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns.

Such as, say, bankrupting themselves to force extraneous social models on countries that have deep traditions

of their own?

“Riverbend” is the alias of a 24-year-old MBT Ema Sandalsi woman who started her own blog, Baghdad Burning,

back in August of last year to write about her day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the aftermath of the MBT

Ema Sandalsi invasion. In her entry for February 15th, 2004, she speaks about the bombing of Baghdad during

Gulf NIKE SHOX I, focusing on the deaths of hundreds of mostly women and children huddled for safety in a bomb

shelter in the Amiriyah district.