Archive for the 'GWOT' Category
Crappy Birthday to You…
Happy Birthday Iraq War! You were supposed to be over in 6 months, and only cost a few billion dollars. We were going to be greeted with candy and flowers, greeted as liberators! We were going to get cheap oil and gasoline as a result, and a flowering Jeffersonian democracy!
So Happy Birthday [...]
A Question About Opiates
Juan Cole has a post up today about the US’s Top Ten Challenges in the Middle East for 2008. I’ll be the first to admit that I am out of my depth when it comes to opining on what needs to be done, but the following graf:
Farmers need aid to be weaned off [...]
Musharraf
They Blame Musharraf
It doesn’t, after all, take much to comprehend that the hated elections looming over Musharraf would probably be postponed indefinitely if his principal political opponent happened to be liquidated before polling day.
So let’s run through this logic in the way that Inspector Ian Blair might have done in his policeman’s notebook before [...]
