Unqualified Offerings

In my opinion, no change of deployments or new military courses of action will have a real meaning unless they are grounded in a new US foreign policy in the Middle East, and specifically a new policy intended to deal with Iraq in the context of its own geo-strategic position in the midst of the [...]

Something occurred to me last week with all the news and speculation about Pakistan. (See the latest from American Footprints and the BBC.)
Almost five years ago I argued that Pakistan was the real object of Al Qaeda’s strategy, because Pakistan had nuclear weapons and an unstable government with a powerful radical-Islamist faction. Here’s what took [...]

Tried an episode of Heroes tonight. It’s up my alley after all. Now, I’ve never been wild about Jeph Loeb’s comics writing. The script here is serviceable, though it’s redolent of Rising Stars and probably some stuff I can’t even remember right now.
But that cast. They’re awful! The two Japanese guys are engaging, but that’s [...]