Automatic Ballpoint » Libya

Prolonged American deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan have crippled the country’s ability to quickly respond to emerging threats and situations elsewhere in the world. Sheer logistics asi...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2011/03/14/earning-it/

The big news yesterday – and I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many friends repost the exact same link before – was that the director of the London School of Economics, Howard Davies, had r...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2011/03/04/howard-davies-libya-and-the-lse/

So, wow. Two-thirds of the month of February have gone by already with nary a peep from this corner. I would like to change that; consider this a step in that direction. Sometimes I feel like my ...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2011/02/20/housekeeping/

This is the last post I’ll write on the subject (probably), but it makes for a good distraction from studying. The exam’s tomorrow. This is how I roll. Anyways, I got a lovely thank-you email...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/06/03/libyan-thugs-in-the-heart-of-london-contd-again/

The attack of the other day is starting to get a little bit of play in the press. They all insist on characterizing it as a “brawl,” however. Last I checked, eight versus two is more of a bea...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/28/libyan-thugs-in-the-heart-of-london-contd/

Yesterday I found myself at the center of a small skirmish outside LSE’s New Academic Building. It turns out that Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s brutal dictator Muammar ...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/26/libyan-thugs/

Michael Moynihan has a scathing report on his recent journey to Libya. Highlights are below, but definitely read the whole thing. It’s like P.J. O’Rourke at his best. When the BBC reported th...

https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/03/15/a-taste-of-libya/