There’s a lot of good news. And, we shouldn’t forget that voting is already underway. I’ve got my Oregon mail-in ballot, and will vote tonight.
What most impressed me was something I heard Cokie Roberts say on NPR yesterday: that the Obama campaign is the best-organized, most disciplined campaign she’s seen in her lifetime. And, she [...]
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The DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, was found dead in Florida today. She committed suicide just “weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for.”
The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, was found in a shed near her mother’s manufactured home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said [...]
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Bummer! It’s only Tuesday. There’s so much going on in my world right now, combined with the other stuff going on in the rest of the world, I am so ready for the weekend!
I have news of my own, but I am still digesting it. I promise that as soon as my head shrinks back [...]
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If you want to see the Cold War as chapter behind us (and that is arguable), the Soviet conflict in Afghanistan was the last proxy war in the contest. As the new film “Charlie Wilson’s War” points out, the support for “freedom fighters” in that conflict was ultimately bipartisan in nature. Bipartisan and, in the end, never truly interested in freedom for the Afghan people. With the help of Pakistani intelligence forces and funding from Sunni extremists in the Arab world, we helped the mujahadeen bleed the Soviets pale in their own little version of Vietnam.
In some stark terms we won —the mission was accomplished. The Soviet tanks pulled out and limped home in time for the collapse of “the evil empire.” And the power vacuum left behind in Afghanistan —it would be filled by a strange mutation of those mujahadeen freedom fighters, the Taliban.
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It’s official. The election season is in full swing, with two caucuses (Iowa and Wyoming) behind us and one right in front of us (New Hampshire).
A lot of people are very excited that Barack Obama has pulled an early lead ahead of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton. And it looks like Obama is seeing a [...]
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The duplicity of the Bush Administration is exhibited nowhere as starkly as in “Kurdistan”. The current nature of the conflict between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds is almost a total creation of U.S. policy. I conclude this because of a 60 Minutes piece filmed in Northern Iraq, containing interviews in which prominent government figures in the [...]
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A cloud the size and color of night has just been lifted by the new NIE, and the one that I’m referring to is not the same one commonly being celebrated. Don’t get me wrong. The fact that there is now virtually zero chance of a U.S. direct military attack on Iranian soil is tremendously [...]
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Is there some game playing going on among the ‘08 Democratic candidates and their advisors? Some seem to think there is and one campaign advisor is saying “just because there’s a writers’ strike in Hollywood, doesn’t mean everything you’re seeing is reruns.”
First there’s Joe Trippi’s weird post about the 2008 presidential race being a “whole [...]
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