Month: August 2008

I’m Back From Vacation

Posted by Steven D | Aug 11, 2008 |

Sorry I haven’t been around to help Booman with posting. I was someplace without internet or TV service so my knowledge of real world events over the last 10 days has been minimal. I assume we’re still in Iraq, still...

Open Thread

Posted by BooMan | Aug 11, 2008 |

On the death of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish

Posted by shergald | Aug 11, 2008 |

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, is dead was the headline of this Rueters/AP story. August 10, 2008 RAMALLAH, West Bank: Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and...

Petraeus Goes Bananastan

Posted by Jeff Huber | Aug 11, 2008 |

Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to spend $20 billion to double the size of Afghanistan’s army as part of a program designed to bring the country that was once the “crown jewel” of our woebegone war on...

Heated Cold War Exchange at UNSC

Posted by Oui | Aug 11, 2008 |

. Just to get the full picture of US Ambassador’s Khalilzad pure fiction about the circumstances of S Ossatia and the firm response by Churkin, Ambassador from Russia. SECURITY COUNCIL HOLDS THIRD EMERGENCY MEETING AS...