http://www.bernardfinel.com Politics, National Security, Crime and Justice, and Social Commentary Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1916&cpage=1#comment-1314 The Point Of The Resentment Is The Resentment | Poison Your Mind Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:00:29 +0000 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1916#comment-1314 [...] LATE UPDATE: Finel is convinced by my argument. Victory!) This entry was posted in News and Current Events, Politics. Bookmark the permalink. [...]

]]> http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1967&cpage=1#comment-1312 Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Not About Benghazi Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:21:06 +0000 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1967#comment-1312 [...] (Paula Broadwell) who’d written a glowing bio of him (my brief review is here). Of course, the right-wingers see a conspiracy in this. But as far as I can tell, there is nothing [...]

]]> http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1251&cpage=1#comment-1311 WikiLeaks Video – The Greater Horror | Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:26:48 +0000 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1251#comment-1311 [...] causing the deaths of the Iraqis on the ground. Was this murder? Without doubt, argued one serious analyst. Another, while critical of the mission, had too many unanswered questions to reach that [...]

]]> http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1251&cpage=1#comment-1310 WikiLeaks Video – The Greater Horror « The Agonist Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:56:17 +0000 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1251#comment-1310 [...] causing the deaths of the Iraqis on the ground. Was this murder? Without doubt, argued one serious analyst. Another, while critical of the mission, had too many unanswered questions to reach that [...]

]]> http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=2170&cpage=1#comment-1309 Ken Riley Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:09:15 +0000 http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=2170#comment-1309 Hardening an embassy to the point where locals feel antagonized is a problem that I saw when I lived in Mexico City. Negotiating entry into the US Embassy there was a colossal pain for Americans–there were appointments, lines, and multiple security checks. Backpacks, computers, etc all had to be checked with security before entering the courtyard in front of the building itself. And Americans were lucky–Mexicans seeking visas, applying for which was exorbitantly priced and generally led to rejection were herded into a long outer queue that never even made it into the embassy proper. And this in a comparatively stable country (certainly compared to Libya) with which we have nominally good relations.

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