Let’s say this guy was running for president on a third-party ticket: proven track record for getting country out of wars strong foreign policy diplomat who forged stronger relationships with powerful developing […]
Iran attack not a problem, say war wonks
Earlier this month, more than a hundred Israeli fighter pilots strutted their right stuff back and forth over the eastern Mediterranean. “There is no way,” Helena Cobban reminds us at Just World […]
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Got hot links if you want ’em! In “Grant paints picture of ‘ignorant’ NASCAR culture” at Si.com, Tom Bowles reports on Mauricia “Mo” Grant, who spent nearly three years as the only […]
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I know that I speak for all Americans. We’ll do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain while inspecting flooding in Columbus Junction, Iowa, a […]
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You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it. — Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television, in a story about “[a]n unusually large […]
Politicians play general, generals play politics (part 1)
“I think it was back in a ’98 Proceedings [the US Naval Institute magazine] piece where I joked that we’d evolved to a point where our politicians play general and our generals […]
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We were just having fun making posters. There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in […]
Where did the idea we don't negotiate come from?
The need to negotiate means one nation has problems to iron out with another. And those the US has the biggest problems with are much less likely to be friends than they […]
One of the "smartest people" Fareed Zakaria knows?
“Deadly hawks come in many styles. Some have polished talons.” – Norman Solomon
Fareed Zakaria debuted his new show for CNN this past Sunday. Introducing his program, called Fareed Zakaria GPS (as in Global Public Square, not Global Positioning System, though the latter might also apply), he explains:
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Exxon Mobil is acting like a dinosaur now, not adopting to a changing environment. — Stephen Viederman, a New York shareholder, after “Exxon Mobil’s chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated […]
