Month: December 2006

Cross posted at the front pages of Pen and Sword, ePluribus and My Left Wing. Also at Kos. Robin Wright and Peter Baker of the Washington Post report that the White House and the Pentagon are split over the proper “way...

I’m used to feeling isolated from the mainstream media and from the Beltway wisdom. At the same time, my track record has been pretty good over the last two years. Whether the subject was Iraq, Israel’s war with...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has made an announcement of early elections. His call for elections has sparked off violence in the occupied territories. Hamas-led government has termed Mr. Abbas’s  move as a...

There’s no question that the war in Iraq is THE CENTRAL foreign policy issue facing the United States. By contrast, Vietnam was a sideshow in the larger Cold War that got out of hand. In the 1960’s and 1970’s...

This can’t be making President “I’m the Decider” Bush very happy today: The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the...