Month: August 2006

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.  – Isak Dinesen

Mr. Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic Representative to the US House from Indiana and the former vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, wrote an OpEd  that articulates a forward-looking foreign policy vision while surgically...

Step One: Dig deeply. Use all available resources to root out everything that you deem counterproductive and offensive. Try to do so in a discreet manner, but do not be afraid to offend some people publicly if you must. Step...

Last month when Donald Rumsfeld announced that tours of duty for some U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq would be extended, he blithely said that: …folks are so proud of what they’re doing and so convinced what...

In a comment on Booman’s Thoughts on Iran post, soj wrote: The Palestinians are already using what Gary Brecher calls the “poor man’s nuke”, which is a rapidly increasing population.  Palestinians...