- “I may have missed something, but when and how many of America's troops in Iraq have "come home" to America?”
Posted on Coming Home from War is No 4th of July Picnic July 4, 2009 9:25 PM - “A better synopsis of Parkinson's Law one could not hope to ask for. Yes, by all means let work expand”
Posted on The Great Disconnect April 8, 2009 5:52 AM - “In regard to those deep thinkers who see no important similarities between the Lunatic Leviathan in Cambodia and the Lunatic”
Posted on Rotwang Ruminates (4) April 1, 2009 3:08 AM - “My fellow Vietnam Veteran Daniel Ellsberg put the matter quite succinctly many years ago now: "The U.S. invaded Iraq for”
Posted on Juan Cole on Responsibility for Getting Us Into Iraq March 18, 2009 2:07 PM - “"The Taliban protected Al Qaida" ... So? What has America done in the last six years but generate even more”
Posted on Bob Herbert on Afghanistan: "War, What's It Good For?" March 3, 2009 5:02 PM - “I served eighteen months in the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972). I lost friends and high-school classmates (not to”
Posted on Bob Herbert on Afghanistan: "War, What's It Good For?" March 3, 2009 4:16 PM - “Prior to the arrival of the always-bungling Americans, the Taliban had for all intents and purposes eliminated the growing of”
Posted on Bob Herbert on Afghanistan: "War, What's It Good For?" March 3, 2009 3:25 PM - ““Israel’s greatest single political problem is the daily threat of blowback from the Palestinian people and their Islamic allies because”
Posted on The Israeli Center: Players and Program February 9, 2009 3:39 PM - “One, he [Obama] was utterly evenhanded. Asked if he would repeat his remarks in Israel this summer about Israel having”
Posted on Obama on Stephanopoulos: It Will Be A Clean Break With Bush on Mideast January 11, 2009 1:59 PM - “I re-read Shelley's immortal poem, "Ozymandias," the other day. I think of it every time I hear an unapologetic aphartheid”
Posted on How Dysfunctional is Israel? January 9, 2009 8:26 PM - “King George the Worst? Probably. Or, as I like to call this lamentable dunce in verse: "A Boobie Murphy's Flaw"”
Posted on George, the Worst January 5, 2009 11:21 AM - “Sara, About that turning down the television volume but leaving the picture screen still glowing at you ... Back in”
Posted on Ten Things I'll Miss About George W. Bush December 27, 2008 3:25 AM - “Thank you for the comment and kind words. I really loved your observation about elderly bowel movements inspiring "confidence." That”
Posted on Ten Things I'll Miss About George W. Bush December 26, 2008 9:51 PM - “I will miss (gladly) the endless fount of poetic inspiration that pundits like David Brooks provided each time they attended”
Posted on Ten Things I'll Miss About George W. Bush December 25, 2008 11:42 PM - “I'll miss especially the endless resort to time-dishonored fallacies like "arguing from ignorance." Dick Cheney especially could work this disreputable”
Posted on Ten Things I'll Miss About George W. Bush December 25, 2008 11:19 PM - “For those terminal adolescents who don't understand the age-span of the so-called "Baby Boomer" generation, I can only say that”
Posted on The Hypocrisy of Caroline's Critics December 25, 2008 9:40 AM - “In my eighth-grade Social Studies class in 1960, I got the got the job of debating the case for Democrat”
Posted on The Hypocrisy of Caroline's Critics December 25, 2008 2:07 AM - “Since when did Mr Rotwang start to channel Bill O'Reilly? As I understand the principle behind freedom of speech, we”
Posted on For the Love of God. Please. Shut. Up. November 9, 2008 7:21 AM - “"This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne're go by, From this day to”
Posted on I was in Grant Park last night. Some thoughts... November 5, 2008 7:57 PM











