This is an expansion of a comment I made at myleftwing on Wes Clark’s paragraph two down from the one in The Next War (hmm, that title, just a little warmongerish, maybe?) that I called the Bloodiest Paragraph of the New...
Read More[The Republican candidates for president and their fantasy-prone constituents wish to set the Way Back Machine to the golden days of the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was impersonating a man just arrived via the 1940s. This...
Read MoreWhen one pays attention to liberal Israelis like Uri Avnery or Jeff Halper, one hears statements such as two states side by side and all they want is 22% (West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem) of their original land. These...
Read MoreFalluja is only 50 kilometers from Baghdad, but a prudent traveler will fly to Damascus first and drive to Falluja from the west. That’s what the Bush administration calls progress in Anbar province. When Gen. David...
Read MoreIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair
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