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Gen. Petraeus says we should stay in Iraq, warning against the effects of a “quick pullback” (ie, a considered withdrawal from combat operations).
It would have been news if he said this instead: “Ladies and gentleman, we’ve got to get the hell out of there immediately. Our being in Iraq is a shit-storm of a [...]
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Salon’s video blog offers a gem today: a Republican National Committee ad that ran on CNN this weekend, featuring no candidate positions, no policy info, no attack on rival candidates, nothing but grainy footage of Osama and other men in Arab garb doing “scary” things that look like maybe combat training or parody martial arts [...]
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So, hey, why isn’t President Pervez “Mushy” Musharraf of Pakistan afraid of the Big Bad Wolf (ie, terrorism generally and al Qaeda in particular)? Is it maybe because he’s secretly on the side of Osama in the War on Terror? Or maybe because he’s a Muslim living among Muslims in a combative part of the [...]
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Whatever you think of Hugo Chavez and his Bush is Satin speech yesterday to the UN General Assembly, he may be inadvertently sabotaging the American Left by aligning himself with them. Waving a copy of Noam Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States, Chavez said “It’s an excellent [...]
War on Terror
A Review of Work Performed, September 2006
I. Update
1) There are 140,000 American young men and women fighting in Iraq and 19,000 fighting in Afghanistan. President Bush claims the period of “employment” for these men and women will not end any time soon and that it will be up to future leaders to [...]
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Truth Out today posted an Agence France Presse round-up of international newspaper editorials. There are no big surprises but the general disgust on the part of editors around the world toward the Bush response to the attacks in the last five years is sobering.
Papers in Europe and the Middle East were the most brutal– which [...]
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