Author: BooMan

David Ignatius’ four alarm fire analogy for Iraq provides a good framework for thinking about Iraq. Maybe we should think like firefighters. They try to save every life they can, but they don’t take crazy risks. When...

[Everyone is focusing on surveillance part of this interview, but this is important, too.] I’d say that someone should tell Joe Lieberman that Iran is a country of Shi’ites and that al-Qaeda is a radical Sunni...

Reuters reports that the Australians are planning to beat it out of Iraq but that they haven’t told poor Bush about it yet. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops...

I am a little humbled to realize that I have been too brainwashed by media narratives to make the comparison of George W. Bush to Neville Chamberlain. But it’s almost uncanny. Bush is a latter-day Neville Chamberlain. That...

The latest rumor making the rounds on the intertubes is that Markos and I work for the CIA. If so, they pay like crap and they never buy anything from the store. Who are you secretly working for? And are you behind all this...