Month: July 2006

Logically, all Israel can gain by making southern Lebanon a free fire zone is to reduce Hezbollah’s fighting infrastructure in that region for a while. Which cannot buy but a bit of time before it all has to be done over...

Shorter Chris Bowers: We tried that…it didn’t work. That’s one retort that can be used equally well to two audiences. The first audience is the so-called swing voter. When the Republicans talk about whatever...

I get tired of having to keep repeating on this blog that the world is growing tired of having to wait for Americans to get their shit together.  As a Canadian friend, I really don’t like chastising Americans this...

It’s not G-8 time, it’s PARTY-TIME! First, it was a not-stifled-at-all dart aimed at Russia’s Vladimir Putin for his non-democratic ways and means. Putin swatted such a feeble jab and got a laugh at George...

…I’m just a simple man and I sometimes have trouble understanding some of the things that go on in the big world. It is really hard to sort out what goes on in places like Israel and Palestine and Lebanon, but let me...