Author: BooMan

If a Lanny Davis stops writing a column for the Moonie Times, does it make any noise?

I don’t think Hamid Karzai is a terrible guy. I just think he’s incapable of governing Afghanistan. What I don’t understand is why we would think we can succeed where he has failed. He gets his hands dirty...

The river they are crying is as big as the Mississippi.

I don’t put a lot of trust or faith in polls this far out from an election, but Democrats cannot be comforted by a spate of recent polls that show them losing ground to the Republicans. The results from Gallup are most...

I’ve spent a good part of the last week re-reading Neil Sheehan’s book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Partly, this is just happenstance; I found a nicely annotated hardback copy in a...