Author: BooMan

Nawaf Obaid, “an adviser to the Saudi government, [who] is managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project in Riyadh and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in...

It looks like Iraq is unraveling fast. I’m reading up on today’s developments and will post on it soon. I don’t think the charade will last until the new Congress is seated.

I don’t come from a military family. It’s true that my oldest brother was born in Stuttgart where my father was stationed in 1956. My father never really talked about his two years in the army and it doesn’t...

Ali Eteraz is a Muslim blogger who is trying to figure out a way for the west to interact with the Islamic world and a way for the Islamic world to work with the west. His views defy simple explanation, but I would say that he...

Atrios has been at war with centrism lately and he has been struggling mightily to define exactly what centrism is. Here’s his latest effort. Mostly centrism is used be elite opinionmakers to denote sensible, set off...