The Seinfeld Strategy
Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Iraq, War | No Comments »Michael Fullilove on America’s ‘Seinfeld’ strategy in Iraq, which means doing the opposite of everything your instincts tell you to do, a tactic once tried by Seinfeld's Costanza: First, military and diplomatic resources are finite and should be directed towards your ...
Iraq War Coalition Fatalaties Chart
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in Iraq | No Comments »An amazing flash timeline of Iraq coalition fatalities (it would be nice to see something similar for Iraqi casualties).SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Iraq War Coalition Fatalaties Chart", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/iraq/iraq-war-coalition-fatalaties-chart/" });
Berube vs Cockburn
Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in Anti-War, Iraq | 1 Comment »Alexander Cockburn shows us just how nasty the internecine squabbles of the left can get: Have any of them, from Makiya through Hitchens to Berman and Berube had dark nights, asking themselves just how much responsibility they have for the heaps ...
Exactly What Christopher Hitchens Means to Say
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Essays, Hitchens, Iraq | 5 Comments »What courageous humility is exemplified by Christopher Hitchens, who ... strike that, reverse it, I misread his recent article in Slate. To revive a different motif: what a sack of shit is Hitchens, who now trots out his anemic debate ...
Honey, I Created a Jihad
Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in 9/11, Iraq | No Comments »If you're interested in how a century of British and American (and generally Western) involvement in the Middle East led to the mess there we now face see Barry Lando's excellent book Web of Deceit (and ses also his blog: ...
This is a Wahr! (A Tale, Told by an Idiot, Full of Shock and Awe ….)
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Essays, Iraq, War on Terror | 1 Comment »Another Washington Journal moment: "This is a Wahr," the old woman reminded us. "This" -- not two wars, the war on terror and the war in Iraq, the first a made-up fantasy and the second elective folly. The first not ...
Dick Cheney’s Assasination - Sick, but I Understand
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Posted in Cheney, Essays, Iraq | No Comments »Andrew Sullivan on the fact that some commenters on Huffington Post took delight int he Cheney Assassination attempt: I think some Huffposters' desire to see the vice-president assassinated is repulsive on every level, and indicative of real sickness on the far ...
The Real Iran
Thursday, March 1st, 2007 Posted in Iraq | No Comments »The Real Iran: The women’s dress varies from the all enveloping black chador that covers them from head to toe, to a mélange of styles that involve trousers, an over garment or manteaux and a hijab that covers the hair. Just ...
Bill Kristol: You Can’t Just Suddenly Use Force
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 Posted in Iraq, Of Interest, Punditry | No Comments »I just heard Bill Kristol use the phrase "you can't just suddenly use force", talking about Iran and the recent Bush administration rhetoric trying to lay the foundation for a bombing campaign. He said it of course, with that usual smugness: ...
