Author: BooMan

I want to believe in the America they taught me about. George Washington could not tell a lie. Honest Abe. Yeah, that’s it. Where is that America? Where’s Crazy Horse (Malt Liquor)? Where’s Geronimo? Tell me...

We’ve seen a majority party grow weary of a President and impeach them twice (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton). History will judge those actions as frivolous and spiteful. But we have another history, too. A history of...

I’m used to feeling isolated from the mainstream media and from the Beltway wisdom. At the same time, my track record has been pretty good over the last two years. Whether the subject was Iraq, Israel’s war with...

There’s no question that the war in Iraq is THE CENTRAL foreign policy issue facing the United States. By contrast, Vietnam was a sideshow in the larger Cold War that got out of hand. In the 1960’s and 1970’s...

Ben Connable, a major in the Marine Corps, has an editorial in today’s New York Times that looks at what happens in Iraq when U.S. troops are withdrawn from hostile regions. American units have already withdrawn from the...