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Iconoclast or Noodle-Noggin

There’s an interesting article in the Washington Post about Lieberman’s recent political past:
bq. [Lieberman's] instincts for collegiality and bipartisanship, once regarded as virtues, are now seen as virtual disqualifications by his critics here and nationally. “I haven’t changed,” Lieberman explained in an interview aboard his campaign bus Friday. “Events around me have changed.” [ "Lieberman's Troubles [...]

FIASCO

So, “the article I linked to yesterday”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/07/23/unwilling-to-listen/ about the Iraq war appears to be an excerpt from the upcoming book “_FIASCO_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159420103X/celticknotwor-20 by Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks. Thomas Ricks did an “online chat”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/07/07/DI2006070701061.html where he discussed his book and his articles. As you can probably guess, a few nutjobs crawled out of the woodwork to [...]

Unwilling to listen

The Washington Post headline reads: “In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html. But it doesn’t sound like the military forgot. The military has institutional memory. The civilian leadership, on the other hand…
bq. [R]etired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, an expert in small wars, was sent to Baghdad by the Pentagon to advise on how to better put [...]

And what can we do now?

At a certain point, I just want to withdraw from the news, so if I don’t say much about more than general principles, please forgive me. The archives are still here; most of the content on the Iraq war, anti-terrorism measures, and Bush’s irresponsibility is still operative. I don’t write quite as much about these [...]

Old Testament Justice makes a return

My friend Blogless Christian sends me to this “ad design site”:http://commercial-archive.com/129885.php where they’re discussing Walker Werbeagentur Zuerich’s new _Trompe l’oeil_ Amnesty International ad campaign. “It’s not happening here but it’s happening now” is the tagline, and they’re pretty effective. They also include a few images of torture and abuse that look like they came from [...]

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