Nick Turse has a fine discussion of the disastrous role that the Air Force is playing in the war in Iraq. The contribution of the Air Force is intentionally understated. Turse concentrates on the most secretive aspects of the bombing campaign in Iraq, pointing out that...
Atrios beat me to it, but given all the talk recently who people who use spurious accusations of anti-Semitism as cover for nutty foreign policy views it seems worth noting.
Shorter Ole Perfesser: Because Nancy Pelosi is some kind of prima donna, she is morally responsible for the degradation of the climate. (Snicker snicker.) But since my position on global.
A very important point made by GFR:No one wants to admit this. But Josh is right. If our future were truly at stake -- if we really, really had to win in Iraq -- we would never stand for the president's piddling surge proposal, because it's...
Having been accused of running a propaganda mill here, allow me to point out some points of agreement with political opponents. Kaus on Joe Klein:In the same 2003 interview, Klein.
Max Boot jumps on the Boer War bandwagon, explaining calmly that what we need is such things as many more people rounded up and held without charges, although he's careful.
Dan Riehl.
I couldn't tell if this was part of the latest round of YouTube wars or not, but honestly -- I'd really appreciate it if these guys would just go back.
Speaking of the temptations of aesthetic Stalinism, I see that Veronica Mars has a script that involves Plan B causing a miscarriage. Ugh. (I haven't actually seen VM since the.
Rodger points to Larry Diamond's op-ed in the LAT about the possibility of war with Iran. We've all learned that it's never sensible to discount the recklessness of this administration, but I'm betting pretty heavily against war. The reasons:1. The Bush administration has made only a...
Chuck Norris has endorsed Gingrich, so I guess we can declare the primary race over. I did enjoy his claim that "we need someone at the helm of our country.
Scott has inveighed against Stalinist aesthetics many times here and elsewhere, so I offer this up with some trepidation -- but I must say that as fond as my memories.