Unqualified Offerings

Mona has an interesting take. In true libertarian fashion it’s more “anti” (Repubs) than “pro” (Dem).

Silvestre Reyes may know the difference between Iraq and Iran, but he’s shaky on who is in Hezbollah and al Qaeda. And despite his Vietnam experience, he wants to send 20K-odd more non-Arabic speakers with guns and no local knowledge to speak of to finish sorting out our Iraq problems.
Rare is the military unit with [...]

Okay, who am I kidding? Jonathan Karl of ABC reports that the Pentagon is about to issue its own gussied-up stay the course rhetoric recommended strategy change for Iraq:
The plan for U.S. forces seems to mirror the one suggested by the Iraq Study Group. But there’s one big difference.
Under the Iraq Study Group plan, released [...]

Brother Leon:
I’m not sure whether Carter doesn’t like Israelis or hates Jews but from my perspective, he would go down in history as someone who made a huge contribution to Israel’s security through his successful mediation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

I wouldn’t have written Oregon Senator Gordon Smith’s speech the way he wrote it. I don’t believe that “need a presence there on the near horizon at least that allows us to provide intelligence, interdiction, logistics, but mostly a presence to say to the murderers that come across the border: We are here, and we [...]