Make sure to read the NYT article on the slides generated during planning for the Iraq War. The slides themselves are available from GWU. Hilzoy has good commentary.The story, incidentally, is written by Michael Gordon, well known arrogant stenographer and best friend of the administration...
Ann Friedman has an article about the "chivalrous" backlash to V-Day, which seems premised on the idea that nothing gets in the way of romancing women like the fact that.
I'm in the midst of reading FM 3-24, the new counter-insurgency manual for the Army and Marine Corps. While I expected a sophisticated document, the degree to which the manual.
Can someone please tell me why Maureen Dowd has a column in the New York Times? (Actually, frankly, I don't want to know.) Jesus, we have almost two years left of this stuff....some good comments. gmack:The problem with Dowd is not so much annoying contrarianism, but...
Glenn Reynolds, 2/11/07 (i.e. 3 days after this was released to the public): "I think it's legitimate, and partly because it was in the week when she was coming out.
Sadly, the vast archival landfill of the internets has been unable to provide me with an image of this ad, which appeared briefly during the summer of 2001, at the.
An now, a very special Valentine's Day message from the Bush administration.
Melissa's resignation, as many bloggers liberal and conservative have noted, is highly regrettable. The fact that the misogynist, anti-Semite and all around bigot Bill Donohue continued to go after McEwan--who.
Good one. Although, in fairness, the Man of More Rubble and Less Trouble was a pioneer of the Hope-Is-Too-A-Plan strategy.
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and Iranian atomic scientists." Killing Iranian religious.
The Times has the details on the deal. Essentially, the US and the five party group will be trading electricity, fuel oil, food, and some diplomatic goodies for a verifiable.