Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
Like Justin, I'm pulling for Iran's Greenies. No, Mousavi's worldview and goals aren't radically different from Ahmadinejad's; if they were, his candidacy wouldn't have been approved by the clerics. Nor are the people out in Tehran's streets good little junior...
Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots...
Lord knows, I tried to warn you: Andrew Sullivan is no peacenik. In the last 24 hours of his hysterical Iran!revolution!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! typeathon, Sullivan has relapsed and rediscovered all his old drinking buddies from the...
Steve Clemons and TNR are both reporting a move inside the Obama White House to get rid of National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones. Clemons says the line being pushed is that the man is just plain lazy and a bad manager (which would explain his success in...
Marc Garlasco helped target laser-guided bombs during the Iraq invasion, and he claims in an NPR interview entitled "Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq," that the military does a careful calculation of how many innocent civilians will be killed for each...
Well, OK, he didn't say that explicitly. But he did say it implicitly. A basic logic lesson and please forgive me if you think I'm talking down to you. I'm really not. It's just that I'm shocked at how many people, including McCain, don't seem to get logic. If I say,...
I'm not a big fan of the New York Times, but today's front-page investigative report on the Pentagon's managing of the news is absolutely first-rate. One of the Pentagon officials, Torie Clarke, the Pentagon's main propagandist, said her goal had been to achieve...
