Author: Jeff Huber

Bush and Cheney Assault the Gray Lady

As of late Monday, young Mister Bush, Dick Cheney and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow had pilloried the “liberal media” for revealing the existence of the Treasury Department/CIA covert monitoring of the SWIFT...

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The Fog and Friction of War and Politics

In politics, as in war, the Clausewitzean concepts of fog and friction apply.  We can’t always see ground truth, and things seldom work out the way they’re supposed to.   The similarity between war and...

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Fox’s Fighting Father Jon

Father Jonathan Morris of Fox News gives another lecture on the “moral justification” for staying the course in Iraq. “Beware of sweeping moral judgments on the Iraq war — pro or con –,” he...

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Iraq, Raptors, and Congressional Rapture

Watching the Senate and House debates on Iraq and the defense budget over the past two weeks, I’ve asked myself time after time Is this really happening? Under the fold: yes, it is… You probably know by now that the...

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Senates, Stooges, Hells and Handbags

We have yet further proof of the failure of neoconservativism: Afghanistan, once the “crown jewel” in our so-called war on terror is officially going to hell in a handbag.   Under the fold: throwing pies at the...

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