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Archive for January 8th, 2007

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Didn’t You Used to Be Somebody?

I’m getting the oddest sense that other people lived through a completely different history the last few years. Specifically, I see people regretting that the US didn’t try local elections in Iraq first before building up to national elections, and people wondering if maybe the Bush Administration rushed Iraqi sovereignty for the sake of declaring [...]

Monday, January 8th, 2007

A Reluctance to Travel a Long Distance to Kill Foreigners at Great Expense

Apparently the specter of “isolationism” is haunting New Yorker reporter Jeff Goldberg and Democratic former something-or-other Evan Bayh.