Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I agree with the first commenter at ObWi:  It doesn’t matter if Palin had trouble giving an accurate explanation of the Bush doctrine and the distinction between pre-emptive and preventive war.  She was asked about the Bush doctrine, and she said that Bush attacked people who posed a threat to America.  Yes, there’s a [...]

By Thoreau
Bob Woodward has been making the talk show rounds with claims that the US has some super-secret and totally awesome new insurgent-killing “operational capability” in Iraq, something so amazing that it’s as big of a leap in warfare as the tank or the nuke.  The insurgents are apparently aware of it, but he can’t [...]

KABUL Sept 10 (Reuters) – Afghans are seething with anger over a spate of civilian deaths in air strikes mounted by U.S.-led coalition forces, a top Afghan defence official said on Wednesday, calling for greater involvement of the Afghan army in operations.

So writes Sanjeev Miglani for Reuters. Presumably this odd revulsion at dead Afghan civilians [...]