The US State Department recently outlined a new strategy a few weeks ago in anticipation of the UN’s announcement of the continued growth of Afghan poppy — up by 17% percent from last years record crop and rising to account for 93% of the world’s supply.

Too bad Senator Craig did not read up on the granddaughter of Senator John H. Bankhead, Tallulah Bankhead, who had this to say about her foot-tapping experiences under bathroom stalls: There was the time she was in Washington for a Democratic Convention honoring her "divine friend, Adlai Stevenson"  . . .

Woolsey’s everywhere. Working hard to start a war with Iran — and perhaps planning to make a lot of money off the conflict if things swing that way.

Give her a break. It was a tough question.

A birthday gift for me? Alberto Gonzales has resigned. The inevitable certaily does take a long time in this administration.

My co-blogger this week at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, Jamie Kirchik, has gone after Max Blumenthal, and Scott Horton has offered a push-back. My sentiments about Max and Sidney are pretty well-known, but let me remind.

I just came across this blog of an American military guy that the Pentagon has not yet shut down called "Army of Dude.

There is a strong wind that all of a sudden seems to be moving US-Cuba relations in new directions.

I just wrote this piece for Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. The zinger — about which I’m withholding judgment but which I think should be in the public domain — is that I have just learned that “A War We Might Just Win” co-author Mike O’Hanlon is under contract with America’s Middle East propaganda network, Alhurra….

There are aspects of both Barack Obama‘s and Hillary Clinton‘s national security and foreign policy strategies that seriously concern me. I feel much more pull towards the kind of national security contours of a Chuck Hagel — but he has not announced and does not yet appear to be running.