Con George-Kotzabasis
I'm a writer writing on politics and international affairs and a former director of SBS TV Australia.
Articles by Con George-Kotzabasis
June 03, 2009
...It's impossible to believe that this wishful thinking of President Obama that by opening the door of diplomacy to Iran...
March 04, 2009
...as long as America continues to be the centripetal force attracting the "best and the brightests" to its shores...
January 27, 2009
...Where are the signs that those leaders of the insurgency in Iraq that have been killed are to be replaced by others?...
January 08, 2009
This is political frolicking at its best by J Street...
December 22, 2008
The attack on Mumbai was the continuation of terror by all means
October 20, 2008
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Unlike the evolution of species from an imperfect state to a more advanced one, the evolution of war, as a result of the huge increase in the fire-power of armaments and lethal military techniques, in reverse is a development for the worst. Throughout history the lessons ...
May 25, 2008
Jihadists Claim their Rights under the Loose garments of Liberal Lawyers
March 08, 2008
This is no time for populist politicians like Obama, nor, could I say, for "aureole" New York Times commentators like Paul Krugman, who are attempting to bait the electorate´s hate of the Republicans. But for politicians with mettle, sagacity, and visual clarity and imagination to deal with the stup...
January 21, 2008
A reply Con George-Kotzabasis to:
Domestic Issues Return To Spotlight
By Waleed Aly, The Australian December 27, 2007
The lawyer and commentator on political and Muslim affairs Waleed Aly argues in his latest co-ed like someone who has a brief as an undercover agent. To disseminate a false se...
December 29, 2007
The following is an extract from my book Unveiling the War Against Terror, published in Melbourne on May 2004. The article was written on October 30, 2003. It's republished on this new blog, hoping that its readers might find it to be of some interest.
By Con George-Kotzabasis
A chirping sound...
December 15, 2007
The NIE'S Pre-Emptive Strike
By Nikos Konstandaras, Washington Post, December 10, 2007
PostGlobal Blog
A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis
Whenever Intelligence fails to find the truth logic comes to its rescue. The Iran theocratic leadership is not concerned with not jeopardizing its pe...
November 09, 2007
The respectable commentantor on international affairs Owen Harris writes, “the US and the American people are experiencing a crisis of confidence” and “anti-Americanism is at all times high”. In my opinion the first issues from the US’s involvement in the war of Iraq and due to the initial seri...
October 14, 2007
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Only someone with the chutzpah of intellectual arrogance and a parvenu in realpolitik and foreign affairs could be behind such a remarkably doltish resolution that puts an arrow through the heart of a much needed ally, such as Turkey, at a time when the US is engaged in...
October 11, 2007
One would have expected that all this information that is coming out now from their own, Ali Kassae, Khadra Simale, not to mention others, about the crucial role of Sheik Mohammed Omran (aka, Mr. bin Laden is a good man) in radicalizing young Muslims and calling them to join Jihad, would have been i...
September 25, 2007
A short reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to: Beyond "The Ad":Getting Back to Substance in the Petraeus Controversy, by Steven Clemons in the Washington Note, September 20, 2007
The MoveOn org's ad General Petraeus Or General Betray Us in the New York Times has sparked a great controversy and debat...
September 19, 2007
Suffered all the chances and changes of war Thucydides
Frank Rich, the theatre, film, and television critic turned political analyst since the unpopularity of the war in Iraq, in his latest op-ed on August 5, 2007, in the New York Times titled, Patriots who Love the Troops to Death, uses emot...
August 30, 2007
A response by Con George-Kotzabasis to:
All the President’s Enablers by Paul Krugman
The New York Times July 20, 2007
The fundamental principle of power and of any political activity is that these should never be any appearance of weakness. Niccolo Machiavelli
The eminent profe...
August 16, 2007
A brief reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to Mark Bahnisch on his piece, Hirsi Ali:an apostle of liberal democracy and of secularism, published on Online Opinion on June 15, 2007
Mark, you place a lot of strawmen on the dry branches of your ideological tree to make your morally and intellectuall...
August 05, 2007
For people who are not dazzled by the bright “surface” of Kevin Rudd’s “unsetting” polls can see that the leader of the Labor party is no political or military strategist. The Opposition leader’s commitment that if he would become the next prime minister of Australia he will withdraw our troops from...
July 24, 2007
The following is a discussion with professor Steven Metz Chairman:Regional Strategy and Planning Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College, held on Small Wars Journal blog on June 8, 2007
Dr. Metz said,
I'm no Obama fan, but I'm uncomfortable with logic of this essay. Iraq--like...
July 13, 2007
"The evil doctrine, the armed forces at the disposal of those professing the doctrine, and the sympathizers with the doctrine in other lands constitute one united threat which must be met by force". Edmund Burke, writing on the French revolution and of the English citizens who supported it either in...
July 02, 2007
The latest attempts in London and in Glasgow by home grown terrorists to strike innocent civilians and kill them in their hundreds that failed only because of the clumsiness of the terrorists, despite their godly-inspired guidance, are a dress rehearsal of the mise en scene that home-grown terro...
July 01, 2007
When men’s pride swells in folly, then their tongues become their true accusers Aeschylus
It’s both interesting and revealing that the critics of the war in Iraq, and generally on the war against global terror, have never formulated their position in concrete and effective terms what should h...
June 21, 2007
The following article was written on April 14, 2006, and was published on my blog Nemesis. It's republished here for the readers of the AC, hoping that they will find it to be of some interest.
C.G-Kotzabasis
"The greater the danger is, the greater is the need to reach agreement quickl...
June 03, 2007
The respectable and cerebrally sharp Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former National Security advisor to president Carter, mounts an intellectually and strategically disrespectful argument, in the Washington Post on March 25, 2007, that the war on terror has created a culture of fear in America, and has ...
May 28, 2007
A retort to Dr Peter McMahon's "Global neo-imperial Fantasies Come Unstuck", published on On Line Opinion,Australia
The utopia builders, a la McMahon, have set up their boutiques in the global market to sell their shoddy product. After the collapse of the historically misplaced Communist utopia, ...
May 15, 2007
Con George-Kotzabasis
The Democrats after seductively saying “I do” to the war bride of President Bush in their nuptial bliss to her four years ago, are wishing now that their bliss has been transmogrified into the difficulties and ugliness of war to dump and replace the old ugly hag of war with...
May 05, 2007
The following paper was written on June 1996. It's republished here from my blog Nemesis, as I believe it's still relevant since the dictatorial reign of political correctness continuous unabated both in Australia and in America. And by highlighting some of the disastrous effects it had, and conti...
April 21, 2007
In the wake of Cheney’s visit and comments on the Australian alliance, the former leader of the Opposition argues in his piece in The Australian, Reports of the Apocalypse have been Greatly Exaggerated, March 8, 2007, that “After all, there is plenty of room in the alliance for disagreement on actio...
April 08, 2007
The following article was written on June 8, 2005. It's republihed here for the readers of The American Chhronicle hoping that they will find it to be of some interest.
A cosmic tidal wave of Muslim fanaticism is threatening Western civilization and its peoples with destruction. Since 9/11, the t...
March 28, 2007
A tiger is stalking the world the tiger of globalization. Nations and peoples who, gazelle-like, are frightened and take flight before the huge ferocious “life-threatening” leaps and bounds of this tiger, are to be mauled and be eaten, as no swift flight can make them escape from the lightning spee...
March 17, 2007
The ideas behind most of these proposals were conceived at the beginning of December 2006, but the paper was not published for obvious reasons as it was sent both to President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, on January 2, 2007. Now, however, that the new US strategy under the command of general Petr...
March 09, 2007
The following is an extract from my book UNVEILING THE WAR AGAINST TERROR, published on May 9, 2004. The paper was written on October 15, 2001
A knife was plunged into the back of Western Civilisation on the 11th of September, 2001. The attack of the terrorists on the World Trade Centre an...
March 04, 2007
The Democrats and the Chuck Hagels of the Republicans in this clash between civilization and barbarism that is fought presently in Iraq will go down in history as turncoats to their historical responsibilities to the nation, at a time when America is at war. They have chosen to become populist leade...
February 28, 2007
BRZEZINSKI’S ROMANTIC DIPLOMATIC “SURGE”
TO EXTRICATE USA FROM ITS IRAQI WOES
…Brzezinski Calls Iraq War a Historic, Strategic, and Moral Calamity…
Washington Note—January 31, 2007
A brief response—Con George-Kotzabasis
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a proud American-Pole. But he is also,...
February 25, 2007
The following paper was written on March 10, 2006, and was sent to President Bush on the same date.
A revisiting curse is haunting the ruling elites of “old” Europe, the curse of Munich. The three witches of Macbeth have taken leave of their domicile on the Scottish highlands, to settle on the ba...
February 23, 2007
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON’S ARISTOPHANEAN
WIT AGAINST THE WAR
A retort: Con George-Kotzabasis
Bush and the Truthiness Taliban
Huffington Post-February 27, 2006
Arianna, coming long ago from ...
February 15, 2007
Once upon a time, the curiosity, intrepidity, and adventurous spirit of the descendants of a cosmopolitan civilization of Judeo-Greco-Roman origins, discovered a new continent that would grow in time, on the "downside" of Eden, economically, politically, culturally, and morally, into the most beauti...
February 15, 2007
Barack Obama has committed in military strategic terms the cardinal “sin”: Giving advance notice to the enemy when America will withdraw its troops from Iraq, which is the inverse of giving advance notice to the enemy when he is going to be attacked. It’s neither surprising nor astonishing that Sena...