Unqualified Offerings

One of the things I thought Peter Beinart’s recent essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” might do is point liberals, Jewish and otherwise, toward a truer and possibly more productive critique of Israel than the “public-relations argument” – that aggressive Israeli policies “only make Israel less secure” by isolating the country from allies [...]

By Thoreau
I support the brave troopers in the field. Fighting them on Tatooine so we don’t have to fight them in New Orleans.

Adding to what Atrios says, we’ve actually reached the point where “Every day is Memorial Day.” You pretty much can’t get through a day of radio, TV and internet without multiple messages that so-and-so “honors the sacrifice of those who serve.” The message might come from the station, from a car-dealership, a personality, or a [...]

By Thoreau
Here’s 23 war casualties to remember.  And here’s another 10.
Honor the dead in uniform, but honor all the other dead as well.  War kills the uniformed and non-uniformed alike.  They all wind up dead because powerful people thought that guns and bombs were an acceptable way to solve problems, and they didn’t care how [...]