Month: June 2005

GEN. MYERS: I would not use the word “psychological operations.” That’s usually how we try to influence the adversary. … I think more broadly we want to talk about strategic communications, and...

image: An Iraqi woman cries after losing her daughter in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad June 13, 2005. A senior U.S. diplomat survived on Monday when a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, several police...

Gay marriage is legal in Spain! `Tis stirring to see logic reign. Would old Colonel Pickering, Allow me some snickering, As I say, “Hope this becomes mainly plain.”? (four more after the fold)”A Tower of...

This week I want to return to an earlier target: Senator Conrad Burns of Montana. I will review his corruption in a minute, but first, the reason why I want to return to him is because Senator Burns just spearheaded an effort to...

My recent diary about the Salvador/Phoenix Option in Iraq was based on a posthumous article by Knight-Ridder’s Yasser Salihee.  The article concluded with a postscript about Salihee’s death being under...