Month: October 2005

Sun Tzu and Hariet Miers

Posted by | Oct 3, 2005 |

I don’t expect what I am about to say will be popular here, but I am interested in your reaction.  Sun Tzu says:

“The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities…It is best to win without fighting.”

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Two Lives Destroyed by Abu Ghraib

Posted by | Oct 3, 2005 |

Der Speigel offers us all an intimate look into the experiences of two very different men – one a prisoner, the other a guard – as they lived through the abusive torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib.

We’ve seen the photos. We’ve read about the “bad apples”. We’ve heard about the terror. This article puts these lives on a parallel track as the torture happened. You will read about the intense reactions of both men and understand what it was like to be there.

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Fools rush in (or why Miers may not be the real nominee)

Posted by | Oct 3, 2005 |

(NOTE: UPDATE BELOW)

It hasn’t taken long for the big blog boys on the right and left to sound off on Harriet Miers. Not surprisingly, Markos and John Aravosis are already salivating. Apparently a Bush insider is just dandy for them. They seem to think this is a huge GOP blunder. Markos goes so far as to claim that Miers is a moderate — though how he would figure that, given that she has virtually no paper trail, who knows?

Here’s another take:

Karl Rove is no fool, and perhaps John and Markos and gloating Dems are falling for a feint. What happens if there’s enough suspicion and resistance on both sides of the aisle so that she cannot win an up or down vote?

Is Harriet Miers simply a red herring nominee whose rejection would set up nomination of a certified radical? Think about it….

[posted on mediagirl.org….]

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