I’ve long been puzzled by the need of the antiwar and/or anti-Bush factions to give Saddam the benefit of enormous doubt in the buildup to the Iraq War, and to give Bush and his administration none. It’s not so much … Continue reading →
George Tenet has written a tell-all book, another example of the talk show mentality that has pervaded this country in recent years. Correct me if I’m wrong (I know you will!), but I don’t recall that it used to be … Continue reading →
As the Democrats declare the Iraq war moribund and failed, others are not so sure. General Petraeus (oh well, what does he know?) reports that Sunnis are turning away from support for al Qaeda, and that the number of killings … Continue reading →
WordPress tells me that so far I’ve written 1,266 posts, with 32,417 comments from readers. Whew. When I do the math, this means that the average number of comments for a single post here has been 25 and a fraction. … Continue reading →
Ron Rosenbaum has written his reflections on the mixed legacy of Boris Yeltsin, who died last Monday. Rosenbaum focuses on the hope those times represented, when the once-mighty Soviet Union withered away and died and was replaced by a fledgling … Continue reading →
The Democratic leadership is pushing vigorously for further confrontation with the Bush administration over a timetable for a pullout. They clearly seem to think they have a winner for themselves in the political sense, whatever the fallout for Iraq itself. … Continue reading →
Well, he may be “relentlessly centrist.” But still, David Broder writes for the liberal Washington Post, and he’s out for Harry Reid’s blood (as well as Gonzalez’s). I’m not sure I agree with Broder, though, that “the Democrats deserve better” … Continue reading →
Clean-up time.
Continue reading →I haven’t been especially easy on Harry Reid lately. I think his behavior despicable, shortsighted, pernicious, self-serving, and bordering on the traitorious. But it doesn’t fit the definition of treason, even though Tom Delay recently has called it “very, very … Continue reading →
This week’s Sanity Squad podcast at PJ deals with the question of how therapists figure out who is likely to be dangerous, and what to do about it. Listen to Dr. Sanity, Shrink, Siggy, and me wrestle with this knotty … Continue reading →
Here’s Naval officer Jason Nichols’s letter to Harry Reid on the subject of Reid’s recent declaration of defeat in Iraq. He makes the excellent point that statements such as Reid’s strike fear into the hearts of any Iraqis who might … Continue reading →
Are clients best served by therapists who’ve had life experiences and backgrounds similar to theirs? Clients certainly often seen to want this, but do they need it for the most effective therapy to take place? And, in fact, can such … Continue reading →