Category: General

I’ve been struggling to figure out what just happened with the detainment and now release of 15 British troops taken in Iraqi waters by Iranian military forces.

33 days from now will be the 12th anniversary of a short speech on US-Cuba policy that Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) gave on the floor of the United States Senate. He charged then President Bill Clinton with keeping US-Cuba policy a “captive of Cold war mentality.

This is a pre-announcement of a blog in the making, The Havana Note — which is not up yet but will be before long.

I’ve learned that a writer who calls him or herself “Influence Peddler” is using my post here as a jumping off point for his/her argument that Democrats will suffer in the 2008 elections because of Iraq.

This is just amusing. Catch C-Span’s creative “visual” commentary on Cheney’s role in Bush’s world.

I’m back.

At long last, a member of President Bush’s inner circle has publicly “broken up” with him. Matthew Dowd, who was inspired by Bush’s style as Texas governor, switched parties and took a high-ranking post on the Bush-Cheney communications team. Six years later, he’s a Bush supporter no more.

Peter O’Toole’s performance as T.E. Lawrence in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia should remind us that all of us, of all political stripes, are dealing with stereotypes that could throw our foreign policy way off course. The prevailing Republican view is well-documented.

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman was one of the headliners at a star-studded annual “Opinions Award” dinner sponsored by The Week in partnership with the Aspen Institute on Tuesday night.

Interesting. In a 50-48 vote, proponents of an Iraq withdrawal timeline prevailed against an attempt by Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to rip out that language in the Iraq supplemental spending bill being debated and voted on today. Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) joined the Dems.