In the last couple of weeks wandering around Colorado [hiding from the news], I’ve been thinking about the so-called "surge." The Iraq Study Group made a gajillion recommendations, but the idea of a "surge" wasn’t one of them. Where did it come from? It was doomed from the start. Bush was supposedly off at Camp […]
An ignoble anniversary …It hasn’t received much recognition in previous years, but today, Aug. 6, is a noteworthy anniversary as well — six years ago today, the president, on vacation in Crawford, was handed an intelligence briefing document. It was titled, Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US. In 2004, Larry Johnson, a former CIA […]
Iranian Unit to Be Labeled ‘Terrorist’ U.S. Moving Against Revolutionary Guard The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group’s business operations and finances. The Bush administration has […]
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes arch rival, is a paradigm for the evil genius – the fictitious brilliant master criminal so popular in much of fiction. Such characters march across the pages and screens of our murder mysteries, spy stories, science fiction thrillers, and action "guy flicks." But do such people exist? More to the point […]
Like the gunslinger in the old westerns, he rides into the sunset leaving the town to pick up the pieces…
Cheney urging strikes on Iran President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues. At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned of unspecified consequences if it continued its alleged support for anti-American forces in […]
The Economist: Republicans in Big, Big Trouble After a long six and a half years of watching almost helplessly as the Republican Party loots, rapes and pillages everything from the Constitution to the middle class to non-threatening countries overseas, it’s always satisfying to see rats call a spade a spade and jump off the pirate […]
Giuliani Family Values … Well, check out whom Rudy Giuliani’s daughter favors in the 2008 race: Barack Obama. … But what does it mean that two of the people who know Giuliani the best–his son and daughter–are not aboard his presidential express? (Earlier this year, his son said he would not be campaigning for the […]
Bush urges Congress to update eavesdropping rules before recess President George W. Bush said Friday that Congress should stay in session until it approved legislation modernizing a U.S. law governing eavesdropping on foreigners. Why is removing the F.I.S.A. Courts from the process of approving surveillance modernizing? Wouldn’t monarchizing be a better choice of words? Why […]