Unqualified Offerings

By thoreau
Sorry for the profanity, but I’m sick and tired of the weaseling on torture.  It’s 2007, for Christ’s sake.  The lies have been laid bare.  There’s absolutely no reason for even a Bush appointee to think he can get away with claiming that waterboarding isn’t torture.  Of course it’s torture!  They even include it [...]

By Thoreau
Are we on the verge of World War 3?
I’m completely serious.  Turkey is preparing to invade Iraq.  Bush is preparing to invade Iran.  And Pakistan is getting ready to explode without any help from India.  When one nuclear power is getting ready to explode (Pakistan) and another nuclear power is preparing to plunge a [...]

By Thoreau
I don’t think troops are dying in Iraq for Bush’s amusement.  But I would say that they’re dying for his ego.
What do we call a man who sends people to their deaths because he’s too stubborn to admit a mistake?  LBJ.
Two Texans.  Two insane wars.  (Yes, I’m aware, LBJ didn’t really start it, but [...]

By Thoreau
One or more bombers attacked the convoy of Benazir Bhutto.  Bhutto is apparently unharmed, but at least 93 people are dead.
Between the military dictator, the religious fanatics, the shadowy intelligence services, and the militants fighting in at least 3 different border areas (with at least 3 different causes) there’s no shortage of suspects here, [...]

I don’t think Matt can be quite correct when he writes
The people arguing that passing a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide right at this moment doesn’t seem like a particularly sound method of advancing the national interest are, of course, correct. At the same time, though, one ought to recognize that on a realist [...]