Two days ago, we read this: In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, "The policy was to keep the army intact; didn’t happen." But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush’s former […]
Utopia (from Greek: οá½ no, and τÏŒπος, place, i.e. "no place" or "place that does not exist") is a fictional island near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the fictional character Raphael Hythloday (translated from the Greek as "knowing in trifles") recounts his experiences in his travels to […]
Remember: Op-Ed Contributor A War We Just Might Win By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK Published: July 30, 2007 This was the widely criticized op-ed in the New York Times written by a pair from the Brookings Institute who were accused of being sold a bill of goods on their military chaperoned eight […]
Book Tells Of Dissent In Bush’s Inner Circle White House Granted Author Unusual Access Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, […]
As Sunnis Flee, Shiites Now Dominate Baghdad It was their last stand. Kamal and a handful of his neighbors were hunkered down on the roof of a dun-colored house in southwest Baghdad two weeks ago as bullets zinged overhead. In the streets below, fighters from Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army fanned out and blasted away with […]
Well, here we are in September Waiting for Petraeus. And since the Administration is getting a jump on the parameters we’re to look at to see how the Surge is going, I thought we’d take a look ourselves. So here it is, our very first parameter:
For days, I’ve thought that the Larry Craig incident contains a message, one that has nothing really to do with some obscure Senator in a far away State being caught in a compromising situation in an Airport toilet. He was out of there like a blue streak, barely five days from exposure to resignation – […]
Paul Krugman: In February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell, addressing the United Nations Security Council, claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He did not, in fact, present any actual evidence . . . [b]ut many people in the political and media establishments swooned: they admired Mr. Powell, and […]
What’s different about 2002-2003 and 1994? It’s a question anyone watching this old interview still asks [like John Stewart did when Stephen Hayes was on his show pushing his book, Cheney]. It wasn’t that long ago. By 1998, the Project for the New American Century sent Clinton a letter advocating "regime change" in Iraq. Cheney […]