Max Boot: ‘The problem isn’t that we are engaged in nation-building. The problem is that we do it so poorly’
Here is Max Boot doing what he does best from his perch at the Council of Foreign Relations, trying to scare the bejesus out of people with threats largely imagined. And the fact that Boot claims the necessity of More...
Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy
photo donkeyhotey Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political More...
David Broder perpetuates the fallacy that war is good for the economy
Last Sunday’s Washington Post had veteran journalist David Broder suggesting that President Obama starting a war with Iran could be the trigger to bring us out of our economic doldrums. He of course uses FDR and More...
How is this explained? Libertarian Alex Snitker is viewed favorably by only 4% of conservatives
Well I do have a theory…. In a poll on the Florida Senate race from Public Policy Polling released on July 20th it shows that among other data, that Libertarian candidate is viewed favorably by 24% of liberals, More...
Another horrible piece of legislation from John McCain
We all remember McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy, now Senator McCain with his fellow neocon Joe Lieberman have introduced “The Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010”. More...
Just an observation:MSNBC has more true conservatives than Fox News
I know this will sound like blasphemy to “conservative” or Republicans everywhere, but after a closer look, liberal bastion cable network MSNBC has more true conservative commentators on the payroll More...
It’s deja vu as the war drums are beating stronger for bombing Iran
Remember how for years before George Bush the second erroneously and illegally took us into war with Iraq. And the multitudes of reasons why we should be there over the years; WMDs, Saddam is horrible to his people, More...
Would the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts really promote freedom?
Many of the Republican talking heads like Sean Hannity are giddy with enthusiasm over the prospect of a Scott Brown (R) victory over Martha Coakley (D) in Massachusetts giving the Republicans the vaunted 41st vote More...
Is there any difference between the war policy of Obama and Bush?
President Barack Obama with the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009. Image has been cropped from original. More...
