Today's APNews Break featured the welcome news that US drops keeping troops in Iraq. Reporters Lara Jakes and Rebecca Santana however managed to suck the joy from the long awaited announcement by possibly the most tasteless paragraph to come over the wire since...
Noah Feldman discusses a possible outcome of the Palestinian statehood bid: He [Mahmoud Abbas] could also still do what most expected him to try this week: Take his request for statehood to the UN General Assembly, where the U.S. has no veto. A two-thirds vote there...
A quick follow-up to my last post. I always see a certain response to criticisms of Iraq superhawks who have moderated or dropped their enthusiasm for the war: Why are you focusing on what she said in 2003 instead of what she said last month? My answer: What a person...
Bill Keller provides a handy list of people who should have been eternally discredited by their behavior after 9/11: During the months of public argument about how to deal with Saddam Hussein, I christened an imaginary association of pundits the...
A headline on the front page reads "Netanyahu possibly drawing own peace map." A source close to the prime minister has provided me with an early draft (click to enlarge):
Amid the release of 35,000 new cables by WikiLeaks this week comes new and tragic, but perhaps not so surprising news about the five deaths of Iraqi civilians, reportedly at the hands of U.S forces in the early to mid-2000's. In each case the military investigated,...
"Shawn’s ego is writing checks that his body cannot cash." So say the Mujahedeen e-Khalq terrorists in the comment section below my recent interview of Huffington Post writer Shawn Amoei. They're angry with him for having the temerity to say that they are the enemies...
If your representative has not signed Lee-Jones letter on Iraq, please call his or her office now. The Capitol Hill Switchboard line is 202-225-3121. The list of current signers to "Bring all U.S. Troops and Military Contractors in Iraq Home by Dec. 31, 2011" is...
David Sanger carries on Walter Duranty, Judith Miller and Michael Gordon's lying legacy at the New York Times. In his new piece, co-written with William J. Broad, Sanger spends eleven-hundred words speculating and propagandizing about what it might meant that an...
Where's old Doc Prather when we need him? George Jahn, the David Sanger of the Associated Press, has a scary new piece out. And though the story seems to have gotten plenty of attention with it's big headline "Iran Prez Said Pushing for Nukes," on further inspection...
