Dems about to go nuclear on Bush?
From Susan Estrich, via Mark Kleiman:"My Democratic friends are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it any more. They are worried, having watched as another August smear campaign, full of lies...
View ArticleTime: more wars planned for Bush 2nd term
Kevin Drum reports that apparently an article about to be published in Time will suggest that the Bush administration may be planning more Iraq-style interventions should Mr. Bush be reelected to a...
View Articleneocon AEI: civil war in Iraq likely
According to PRI's "the World," a panel of speakers today at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute concluded that a civil war between radical Islamists and backers of more secular...
View ArticleDemocrats still losing the Vietnam war
As it became clear that America would lose the war in Vietnam, the new left, and mainstream liberal Democrats more quietly, rejoiced at the prospect that cold war American foreign policy would finally...
View Article(Fiscal) apocalypse now...
Every now and then, the SCLM hydra extracts one of its many heads from the dark space between its legs (wherein the trial of Scott Peterson is a major national news story, and a vote for John Kerry is...
View ArticleBad Democratic karma + a way out of Iraq
Here's the deal. Liberal Democrats never really grasped the fact that a majority of the American people (Republicans and a majority of working class and white collar independents) drank the neocon kool...
View ArticleBush: Kerry wants to expand government
ST. CLOUD, Minn - Seeking to regain ground as his post-convention bounce fades, President Bush told supporters at a rally today that John Kerry wishes to "massively expand" the size and power of the...
View ArticleThe Case of the Niger Documents: the movie
Josh Marshall reports:"In Newsweek this afternoon, Mike Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have a piece that touches on the fact that the FBI still hasn't managed to interview Rocco Martino, the guy at the...
View ArticleIraq as our Sicily
Forget Iraq as Vietnam, or Iraq as the Phillipines. And I know you're all nauseated by now by Iraq as Japan, but in any event forget that too. For all of you incorrigible fans of analogies between...
View Articleboomer neocons should pay for their crusade
Since the bulk of the potentially 70+ trillion dollar shortfall (not including medicaid) of the baby boomers' entitlements, and the multi-trillion dollar cost of the boomer neoconservative and liberal...
View Articlegreat TNR response to Edwards/Cheney debate
Jonathan Chait's response to the Edwards/Cheney debate is priceless:"First, he [Edwards] pointed out that Bush invaded Iraq without a plan to win the peace and without sufficient ground troops to keep...
View ArticleIraq war far more serious than Vietnam
There has been a strong and widely noted tendency among the chattering class, and particularly among liberal pundits, to compare the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam. While the two wars share certain...
View Articlenew neocon strategy: destroy Arab economies to save them
These people just do not know when to stop. As if it was not enough for the neoconservatives and liberal hawks to transform Iraq into a bleeding cauldron of radical Islamism and raw criminality in...
View Articletheres no such thing as a libertarian neoconservative
From the 1930s to his death in the early 1950s, Republican Senator Robert Taft ("Mr. Republican" as he was often called) warned that American interventionism abroad, and indeed American empire, would...
View ArticleKurds preparing for war over Kirkuk, independence
I apologize if someone already linked to this piece (its been up since this morning), but TNR's Iraq'd blog raises the cheerful and apparently increasing possibility of a war between Kurds and Arabs...
View ArticleWill the American center hold?
It should be perfectly obvious to anyone who has been paying attention that George W Bush's strategy in this election is focused on galvanizing his base, and fear mongering just enough independents and...
View ArticleNavy counters al Qaeda submarine threat
In a staggering blow to al Qaeda's vast and sophisticated fleet of submarines, "the Navy the Navy on Saturday commissioned the lead ship of its latest class of fast-attack submarines specifically...
View Articlewhy I voted against CA stem cell prop
As someone who has watched as several decades of ballot propositions have made my (almost) home state of California nearly ungovernable, eroded the rights and protections of vulnerable minorities, and...
View ArticleCan Arab democracy succeed across sectarian lines?
Spencer Ackerman's often great Iraqd blog at tnr.com has been chronicling Kurdish unease over the prospect of majority Shiite rule in a prospective democratic Iraq, and the Kurds' claim to the oil rich...
View Articlethe 2008 Democratic realignment
I've been arguing for months in these parts that 2004 would likely prove to be a major realigning election in American history, with power either changing hands to the Democrats, or the definition of...
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