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  • Book to Iraq

    I have a different kind of ''books to Iraq'' story. After leaving a Ph.D. program in English, I tried to sell a lot of my grad school books on the Web. I'd taken a class on Masochism in Victorian literature and had a book called ''The Mastery of Submission,'' which I was trying to get rid of. Short version: a solider in a FOB (forward operating ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by paradox on July 1, 2008

  • Tanking Judges

    Again, I think our considerations are derailed from the get-go by terminology. In the current Iraq situation, “battlefield” is not quite the term to frame the issue of judicial deference to military judgment. This is not George Washington’s, or Grant’s, or Pershing’s, or Ike’s, or Ridgeway’s war: in these aforementioned settings, none of those ...
    Posted to Convictions by odysseus on June 27, 2008

  • Dems: Move to Next Big Thing in Iraq

    The democrats should be jumping for joy and shouting “Yippee! The more the Iraqi government is able to consolidate its authority and the Iraqi Army can function on it’s own, the less effective Republicans will be throwing around clichés like ‘cut and run’ or ‘’inviting a bloodbath’ to oppose Senator Obama or anyone else advocating an orderly ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Squeek on June 21, 2008

  • McClellan, like the Military: Malfeasance All Around

    Well, we hear it now straight from the horse's mouth, if that's the right part of the animal's anatomy. Unfortunately, it's the same scenario again, like retired generals beating their breasts after the fact: the press secretary, privy to the highest levels of decision making, who might have spoken up and made a difference, now finds the bravery ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by jaspatk1701 on June 6, 2008

  • I loved the Sex and the City Movie

    And I think it's ludicrous to say that people cried harder in this movie than in something about the Iraq war. That is like newspaper writers who critique people who watch reality shows, saying the viewers could be using that time to help the homeless, but guess what? The newspaper writers could be using the time they spend writing criticizing ...
    Posted to IM by Bridezilla on June 5, 2008

  • PTSD, Hollywood motive for the Antagonist, and Reality

    I'm working on my computer with the volume on the TV low as the otherwise unremarkable movie The Hunted with Benecio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones is playing and then it hits me: Toro's character, Aaron, has almost all the symptoms of PTSD and his leutenant, Jones' character, refuses to respond to Aaron's letters crying out for help with his ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on June 3, 2008

  • Does Feith mention the PNAC and Wolfowitz?

    Hitchens is not an authority on the War on Iraq. He was in favor of it. So the fact that he claims Feith's work is a triumph for the pro-invasionists, pro-imperialists crowd is selfserving and prejudice. First) the motivations, objectives, and purposes for invading Iraq was determined years before 2001. Did Feith mention that? Or did he drop ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on June 2, 2008

  • Hitchens on Feith

    I am not surprised about Hitchen's praise of Feith's book. It is a clone of his own misguided view of the Iraq disaster. I am much more inclined to accept Gen. Tommy Franks judgment of Feith.
    Posted to Fighting Words by philix on June 2, 2008

  • Re: Just another Homosexual reporter in lust with Obama

    Gave use the Iraq War? Where have you been? It started in 1990 and never stopped! It had a cease fire in 1991. From 1992 to 2000 there was a lot of not-cease fire-ing going on. Clinton bombed the hell out of Baghdad every time he had bad PR/felt like it while Hussein violated the terms of the cease fire agreement every single day. At what point ...
    Posted to Politics by socsci387 on May 31, 2008

  • What about media complicity?

    I like how Dickerson relegates McClellen's equally scathing critique of the ''deferential'' press corps to a parenthetical aside, and instead focuses on the Bush bashing, which is how the rest of the media is responding, that is when they're not laughably defending themselves for the great job they did. Here's McClellen on the collapse of the ...
    Posted to Politics by argexpat on May 29, 2008
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