It’s deppressing news. If we had a competent commander and chief we’d still be in Afghanistan today with the number of troops we now have in Iraq. It seems that Bush’s inept invasion has, at least in hindsight, cost us three things: Aghanistan (where every day the insurgency increasingly resembles that of Iraq’s), our international […]
Today we’ve oficially handed power over Iraq’s military to the Iraqis. It should be said, however, that the transfer of control is not a one time deal. I guess we’re phasing it in, starting with an almost non-existant Iraqi navy and airforce, as well as the Najaf-based 8th Army Division.
What this actually means in terms […]
A little point/counter-point for you all (by two of my favorite columnists no less!):
The first blow is struck by Fareed Zakaria with this rather sober-headed analysis of the Iranian crisis. He suggests that Washington has a long history of portraying it’s enemies as nightmarishly powerful boogiemen when the reality is that they’re more like pissed […]
A new book claims that Karl Rove’s father is gay.
*cough* hypocrite *cough*
First, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has essentially given up any faith in his power to prevent a nascent civil war from forming over there.
Second, four US soldiers could face the death penalty for their part in the alleged murder of three civilians.
I’d say that’s some depressing news all around. Sistani was largely heralded as a […]
A sweet sweet desire to purge the universities of secular liberals.
Anyone have a clue? Well, you should; Mexico is our neighbor after all. The least you can do is know the man’s name. American geographical ignorance is bad enough, but it is really absurd that most Americans — and I’m willing to bet that this even applies to most college-educated Americans — don’t even know […]
Al-Qaeda has called on the US to convert to Islam. That’s not particularly surprising, but I think it adequately illustrates the point I was trying to make here about some of the quotes I read here. Long story short: Islam has a serious problem with fascism on its hands.
Yet some clearly hesitate to call it […]
About a 55% success ratio for a US missile defense program. Now that’s what I call purchasing power!
That’s right, the Daily Colonial’s PoliBlog (and by that I mean me, Danny K) is back and ready for action. And its a good thing too, because it’s not as if the world has stood still in my absence. Although there’s no use in trying to go over all the stuff that happened during […]