"Events, dear boy, events."
--Former British PM Harold Macmillan on the greatest threat to any government’s plans.
"In chaos there is opportunity"
--Variously attributed.
It’s time for Republicans to decide: are we willing to stake the election on the proposition that we have won the war in Iraq?
I. Prelude: Early 2007
Way back at the beginning of 2007, at the beginning of the marathon primary race, the Republican frontrunner, John McCain, and the Democratic upstart, Barack Obama, committed themselves to their respective strategies for the Iraq War. McCain, a vocal supporter of the war and leader in the debate about the war as far back as 2002 - and, indeed, one of the leading voices on every public foreign policy controversy of the last two decades - stubbornly declared that he would "rather lose an election than lose a war," and committed the success of his campaign to the success of the "surge," the decision by President...
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The Nobodies From: lewrockwell.com Post Date: 2008-09-29 13:02:11
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By Gareth Porter, IPS News. Posted October 7, 2008.
Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan.
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Until this week, Bobby May had been on GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s Virginia leadership team. But May was forced to leave the campaign earlier this week after the Los Angeles Times published part of a column that May had written.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration plans to greatly expand protections for the U.S. banking system out of deep concern for the faltering economy, an industry official said Monday night after banking executives and top federal officials met to revamp the largest bailout plan in the nation’s history. President Bush was to announce the expansion Tuesday morning….
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Peter Abraham summarizes the problem with unsafe, easily-splintered maple bats, and - sadly - why they are yet another thing that, as was so long true for steroids and the DH rule, (1) should be subject to immediate rulemaking by the Commissioner but instead (2) will likely be held hostage indefinitely by the players’ union in the hopes of getting the owners to make some concession in return for a ban. Which is not to suggest in either case that the owners are pillars of v... more
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