Author: BooMan

I’ve written two Syria pieces, one last night and one this morning, that seek to debunk the idea that we’re in a proxy war against Russia on the side of the Sunnis in a regional war against the Shiites, and that the...

I think Marcy Wheeler’s analysis on Syria is very good. As I’ve mentioned before, there seems to be buy-in even from the neo-conservative crowd that conditions on the ground in Syria are not yet ripe for regime...

Back when all this began, when the Bush administration decided that the Shiite power they had unleashed by invading Iraq was a bigger threat to American interests in the Middle East than the Sunni-led insurgency they were facing...

This is what happens when people start believing their own bullshit. Political scientist and commentator G. Terry Madonna also said he expects [Pennsylvania Governor Tom] Corbett to announce a plan to accept [Medicaid] expansion...

John Cassidy, writing in The New Yorker, is generally positive about the president’s performance on the Syrian crisis, but he takes a couple of jabs. Are they warranted? Setting aside the debate about how much criticism...