Month: December 2006

In the latest example of just how great the Iraqi troops are being trained, or where their allegiances may lie (probably first and foremost it lies with saving their own asses), we have this bit of news from earlier today:Gunmen...

Liberal Street Fighter Why is it that far too many people refuse to see the world as it is, to see other people as they are, rather than to act based solely on myths, preconceptions, hatreds, predjudices and subsumed greed and...

Shorter version: Only liberal Protestants and Confucians can handle democracy.

For a long time I have resisted the temptation to offer strategic advice to the Bush administration for the specific reason that I consider it worse than wasted breath. Offering up constructive advice for Iraq is, in effect,...

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