Author: BooMan

Shorter version: Only liberal Protestants and Confucians can handle democracy.

For a long time I have resisted the temptation to offer strategic advice to the Bush administration for the specific reason that I consider it worse than wasted breath. Offering up constructive advice for Iraq is, in effect,...

The following leaps out of the New York Times’ Week and Review and punches you in the gut. If you want to know why Dick Cheney was quickly summoned to Saudi Arabia and why subsequently the Saudi ambassador quit, look no...

If I were Bush I would offer the U.N. Ambassador spot to Joe Lieberman. But if I were Joe Lieberman, I wouldn’t take the job. Whatever Joe’s flaws he must see that Bush is a hopeless fool. …as Bush rethinks his...

I’m celebrating Christmas with the family today, so light posting. If I were to write about something, I’d write about this.