Mahablog has it best and her history is as I remember it. McGovern didn’t lose because he was anti-war, Nixon’s entire campaign was based on the claim that he was the one best suited to end the war. Plus, Reagan didn’t run against Carter the peacenik, he ran against Carter as, believe it [...]
But we don’t of course, and Jamison Foser over at MediaMatters really nails them to the wall with this one. If only we could hold the media accountable, even in the imperfect way we get to hold politicians accountable.
So please — please — use these last 10 days well. Use them to educate your [...]
Hooray! Riverbend has posted again to her blog. I’ve been very worried, given the level of sectarian violence in Baghdad and the massive increase in civilian deaths, that she or her family had come to harm. Thankfully that is not the case.
She’s not doing well though, as the level of violence that [...]
This is Riverbend’s last post, but I sincerely hope not her final post. She’s been an incredible source of information from inside Baghdad, from inside an Iraqi family struggling with the transition from Saddam Hussein to a life under oppressive occupation, from relative freedom from religious strife and freedom for women to bitter civil [...]
This is what we get when we “bring democracy” at the point of a gun.
The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect a worsening of violence as reported by the U.S. military, the news media and [...]
The miniature Earth.
Food for thought, perspective for the future.
It’s best we don’t also forget, in the backwash of the Foley scandal, what else is happening in the world for which this group of Republican miscreants is responsible, Iraq. Frank Rich had an excellent, as usual, column this weekend in which he points out what Arianna Huffington also points out, that for all [...]
There’s a powerfully sad and painful incongruity to the events of the last 10 days as they pertain to children and the predations of adults upon them. First we had the Platte Canyon assaults and shootings, perpetrated by a man obviously obsessed with young, thin, blonde girls. In addition he was well-armed and [...]