This is going to be a bit of a disorganized, stream-of-consciousness roster of items on which I feel I owe some comment. Short and brief. First of all, I have been pestered by quite a number of people and posters about Cheney/Bush and impeachment. Go back and read the blog.
I’ll throw in my two cents on Bush friend Pete Domenici’s statement on Iraq this week. My organization doesn’t work on Iraq, but my colleagues and I spend a great deal of time thinking about how we use language and how it affects the public debate.
Read this snippet from a Globe and Mail article yesterday: 6 Canadian soldiers and interpreter die as Taliban adopt deadly Iraqi tactics in Afghanistan GRAEME SMITH, Globe and Mail Update, July 5, 2007 at 1:55 PM EDT . . .
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) really likes President Bush and Vice President Cheney. He has had a strained relationship with John McCain for years — and when Bush beat McCain in the 2000 primaries, Domenici was absolutely “giddy” about it.
Was Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei behind the abduction of Britain’s 15 sailors — who were taken by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on March 23rd of this year — or not? Many of the Iran experts I know have told me that it is hard to imagine a scenario that would not depict Khamenei as the…
I imagine Steve figured his “Happy 4th of July” post would stay up here throughout the holiday, but I’m bumping it down to announce my triumphant return to The Washington Note and explain my two-week absence.
Annie, Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner and I want to wish all of you a very happy and relaxing 4th of July.
(1st Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich Jr.
The United States has had a long history of hawkishness in its foreign policy, but for the most part American hawks have been judicious ones who carefully weighed costs and opportunities. But then there is also a cast of characters in our history that can’t see the gray area between bombing and appeasement.
I am hosting a dinner for Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns tonight, and will report on the “on the record” portion later. In other news, Scooter Libby will not go to jail. He will still have to pay a $250,000 fine and will be on 2-year probation.
