FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Stafford, Va.: Where does the crux of the blame for the FIASCO lie? There were a lot of efforts to incorporate lessons learned and new “ways of thinking” into military concepts, doctrine, education and training prior to OIF. Why did these efforts fail to take?
Tom Ricks: I’d say the [...]
Digby examines the pundit class’ Pathological Fear Of Hippies
The political issues were just a small part of why people voted for Nixon both times and why the political establishment moved to the right (as the culture itself grew ever more liberal.) Broder and his pals’ facile rendering of that history has pretty much crippled liberalism [...]
You really shouldn’t vote for the Kinkster no matter how funny you think it would be to have a guitar-playing “Jewish Cowboy” for Gov. Enough with the damn cowboys already. Let’s let someone who believes in government run things for a while. M’kay?.
From Cenk Uygur at Huffpo:
How Many Civilians Do You Have to Kill Before You Become a Terrorist?
The United States and Israel love to throw around the word “terrorist.” It’s hard to name any of our enemies who we have not called a terrorist yet. I was led to believe that a terrorist was someone who [...]
Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Even neoconservatives now accepting defeat in Iraq
So that’s what our mission in Iraq has been reduced to — ceding most of Iraq to Iranian control and acknowledging that a civil war is now inevitable and we can do nothing to stop it. Worse, the only thing we can possibly [...]
I know absolutely nothing about the stock market, but I think I can read a chart fairly well, and this does not look good to me.
But, no worries; President Bush, in St. Petersburg, Russia, for a bike ride the G8 summit, assures us that “By pursuing pro-growth policies and restraining government spending, we will keep [...]
WaPo’s Walter Pincus, veteran of 50 years of DC journalism, has an idea for his colleagues.
Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > Fighting back against the PR presidency
The truth of the matter is that with help from the news media, being able to “stay on message” is now considered a presidential asset, perhaps even a requirement. Of [...]
Never thought I’d say this:
Thank you, Paula Jones!?
Our Wilson-bashing friends also don’t seem to have thought through what’s likely to happen in plaintiffs’ discovery. Libby and Rove are going to have to answer the same questions in deposition they answered in front of the grand jury. Only this time it will be on the public [...]
…literally.
I’ll even forget the political nonsense in this article, I’m so appalled by the language and style — although calling it that is just wrong.
And to think I gave up the idea of being a professional writer because I wasn’t good enough!
