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I had long wondered why, after a difficult confirmation battle for the post, Chris Hill’s tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq was so brief. A friend (thank you) points me to this lengthy article ...

https://freekorea.us/2015/04/on-chris-hill-in-iraq-it-was-frightening-how-a-person-could-so-poison-a-place/

The ferocious intellect and powerful soul of Malala Yousafzai may inhabit the body of a little girl, but she’s a remarkable young woman who is wise beyond her years. Malala represents what I...

https://freekorea.us/2014/10/the-nobel-committee-finally-gets-one-right/

I have to wonder whether, at this point, there’s still time to save Jordan, much less the Free Syrian Army.

https://freekorea.us/2014/09/the-president-just-articulated-the-right-policy-for-iraq-and-syria-for-2011/

Paul’s shift may be even less credible than Clinton’s, and just as mercenary. Unfortunately for Paul, isolationism, emotional authenticity, and financial puritanism are his brand image. With...

https://freekorea.us/2014/08/rand-paul-you-people-got-me-all-wrong-about/

There’s no audio, so you can’t hear him singing along to “Sugar Magnolia” and barking at his wives for more potato chips: At the risk of starting a global conspiracy theory here and now, ...

https://freekorea.us/2011/05/see-kids-i-told-you-marijuana-was-bad-for-you/

Just a few observations: 1. It’s particularly satisfying in some evil way to think of Osama bin Laden not as “elusive” or “shadowy,” but as “shark food.” 2. I don’t think the loca...

https://freekorea.us/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-thread/

Just a year after the Senate confirmed failed North Korea negotiator Chris Hill as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, NHK is reporting that Hill plans to retire this summer. There has been occasional grumb...

https://freekorea.us/2010/05/rumor-chris-hill-to-retire/

Korean-American Richard Cho has been hailed as a hero for helping subdue a terrorist and putting out a fire aboard a U.S. airliner heading for Detroit last Christmas. Cho, 40, immigrated with his...

https://freekorea.us/2010/03/your-feel-good-story-of-the-year-so-far/

Surely even the most determined opponent of the Iraq War would agree that this is a far better way for a war to end than this, or this. It’s not quite over, of course, but there’s no reason f...

https://freekorea.us/2010/03/all-wars-should-end-like-this/

By what unhappy accident did the muses of Seoul’s urban planning put a large mosque with a significant population of Pakistani fundamentalists in its congregation smack-dab on top of Hooker Hil...

https://freekorea.us/2010/02/were-the-taliban-casing-yongsan/

An ax-wielding Somali man with suspected al-Qaida links was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet Muhammad cartoon out...

https://freekorea.us/2010/01/what-you-mean-these-cartoons-2/

This Washington Post article, in addition to being an interesting and entertaining read, confirms my immediate suspicions about that shipment of North Korean arms recently interdicted in the Pers...

https://freekorea.us/2009/12/axis-schmaxis-part-11-iran-equipping-terrorists-with-north-korean-weapons/

American insiders in Baghdad say the relationship between the top U.S. commander there, Gen. Raymond Odierno, and the top civilian official there, Amb. Christopher Hill, is deteriorating rapidly....

https://freekorea.us/2009/09/i-am-still-haunted-by-the-fact-that-i-didnt-warn-you-oh-right/

The shipment of RPG’s and detonators to Iran being akin to shipping snow to South Dakota in February, I continue to be curious about the ultimate destination for those weapons. Like GI Korea, I...

https://freekorea.us/2009/09/commentary-on-the-uae-weapons-seizure/

Robert D. Kaplan worries that maybe Christopher Hill wasn’t the best choice for U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. It’s obvious that Kaplan still doesn’t know the half of it.

https://freekorea.us/2009/08/i-am-haunted-by-the-fact-that-i-didnt-warn-you-oh-wait/

For the record, any POTUS who would pass up an opportunity to assassinate the terrorists who want to kill me, my family, and my fellow citizens in our own homes and offices should be impeached. N...

https://freekorea.us/2009/08/the-real-scandal-is-not-using-hollow-points-2/

Admittedly, I’m ambivalent about this.  On the one hand, I’ve noted signs that Obama’s North Korea policy is headed in the right direction — a far better one than Bush’s, if carried ou...

https://freekorea.us/2009/06/poll-obama-too-soft-on-north-korea/

I have a new piece up at The New Ledger: As President Barack Obama basks in the adoration of the media, the captivity of three of their colleagues — one in Iran and two in North Korea — now l...

https://freekorea.us/2009/05/at-the-new-ledger-on-the-new-hostage-diplomacy/