Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Democrats, Education, Health, Islam, Muslim violence, Vaccinations
The kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids were around. I’ve [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The Surge is not working. Petraeus is not worth his paycheck. American political and military resolve have nothing to do with the stabilizing situation in Iraq. How do I know this? Because Obama said so. In Obama-land, the reason for the decrease in violence and the increase in stability in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 03 2008 | Filed under: Iraq, Military
The Surge’s effectiveness in bringing down the rate of deaths in Iraq is stunning. Naysayers (and there are a few who hang out here), have already moved the goal posts, saying that the Surge hasn’t worked because (a) all the necessary internecine, tribal, religious, etc., killing was already done before the Surge kicked in and [...]
Bookworm on Jan 02 2008 | Filed under: John Edwards, Media matters
By now, it’s not news to any of you that John Edwards, one of the top Democratic contenders for the Presidency, announced that, if he’s elected, he’ll withdraw all troops from Iraq within ten months:
John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police [...]
Bookworm on Nov 26 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Congress, Democrats
I’m not giving away anything by quoting here the concluding paragraph from Noemie Emery’s long and fascinating article about the Democrats’ desperate and, at the moment, unsuccessful anti-Surge efforts in the last year. If you read only this paragraph, good as it is, you’ll have missed all of the really interesting stuff:
As they took control [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2007 | Filed under: Iraq, Media matters
There aren’t a whole lot of facts in Seymour Hersh’s interview with Spiegel online, but it becomes clear that, while he fears President Bush for being on a mission for God (Seymour’s opinion), Ahmadinejad’s pronouncements that he’s going to destroy Israel and have the bomb soon are totally copacetic. I’ve included some examples of [...]
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