For once, pro-war LA Times commentator Max Boot put up a reasonable article in his column: Is Iraq turning into Yugoslavia? […] In the former Yugoslavia, as in Iraq, ethnic groups have clashed over the years, but they also...
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Read MoreDoug Watts did a nice critique of the just published Michael Hirsh Newsweek piece: In For the Long Haul; The Petraeus plan will have U.S. forces deployed in Iraq for years to come. Does anybody running for president realize...
Read Morecross-posted at skippy and a veritable cornucopia of other community blogs. former clinton supporter and current hollywood quadzillionaire david geffen started a firestorm of words between the front runners in the democratic...
Read More(cross posted from daily Kos, where this diary is a Friday morning feature) Rereading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. This 1,000 page book is the FIRST volume of three. And I’m reading it AGAIN. SO, I...
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