A Successful End to the War
« Previous Entries Thursday, June 18th, 2009John McCain, Freedom, and Iran
John McCain just seems bitter lately.
First, he lost the election and now he’s starting down the Dick Cheney, grumpy ex-Vice President road of griping and swiping.
This week McCain came out and said Obama wasn’t taking enough of a stand against the current Iranian government.
McCain stated:
“We are seeking, as we have throughout the world, a free […]
Pardon the Shoe Thrower
As we get ready to close 2008 and step into 2009, I think we all have a list of “to dos” for soon-to-be-President Obama. However, my last request for 2008 goes out to George W. Bush.
As a gesture of strength and goodwill, I believe our current President should ask the Iraqi government to pardon the shoe […]
Bush is No Batman
It was bound to happen. When I saw The Dark Knight this past week, I couldn’t help but note the allusions to the war on terror:
The Joker as the “terrorist” of Gotham
The technology that allows Batman to listen in to everyone in Gotham
And the comic-book morality that Batman can, in the words of Alfred, “make […]
When Republican Terror Marketing Collapses
President Bush and the neo-conservatives have argued for some time for waterboarding and intelligence techniques to elicit information from detainees.
The argument Bush uses is very similar to the following: we’ve got to give intelligence experts the tools they need in order to extract information to prevent terrorist attacks.
“The bill Congress sent me would take away […]
No Incentive to End Terrorism
I have pointed this out before, but recently an aide for John McCain said it for me: a terror incident on U.S. soil “certainly would be a big advantage to him [McCain].”
Charlie Black said this in an interview with Fortune. He since regrets saying this, but it rings true.
If terrorists attacked, people would be more […]
Military Means Alone Will Not Solve the Problem
Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivered a message to Turkish leaders today that military means alone will not solve the problem of PKK resistance fighters in Northern Iraq.
Does this mean that the Bush administration has finally recognized that military means alone will not be enough to win in Iraq?
If so, this is a great progressive victory. […]
How Do I Frame Terrorism?
In an episode of MASH entitled “The Joker is Wild,” a mad joker runs loose pranking everyone in the camp but Hawkeye. Hawkeye appears to be a marked man and spends every waking moment trying to prevent the practical joke. In the end, we find out that the real practical joke had already been […]
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Dear Democrats: Here’s How to Fight in the Budget Fight
Today, the inevitable happened. Congress caved in to virtually all of President Bush’s budget requests.
Previously, I warned that the Democrats had painted themselves into a corner because they only see two alternatives: fund the war or cut funding altogether. And they’re afraid to cut funding for the war because of the political backlash. This lesson […]
Supreme Excellence in Warfare
One of the greatest ironies of the Bush administration is that the worse the President performs, the more people think that they need a “strong leader” like him.
For example, Bush invades Iraq on trumped up charges, destabilizes the Middle East, creates more terrorists than ever before, and convinces people we need a strong leader to […]
The Coming Budget Fight
Whitehouse Press secretary Dana Perino, before taking off for Thanksgiving, laid the blame squarely on the Democrats for not giving President Bush his war money with no strings attached.
Perino said Congress should “send the President supplemental war funding without arbitrary surrender dates and without micromanaging the war before they leave for their next vacation.”
Of course […]