I hope we can support Clinton without rooting for the the saber-rattling. I've been doing everything I can to get her elected, but she has to be wrenched out of the grasp of the neoconservative hawks.
Trump did us a big favor by unloading on George W. Bush.
Now people just send off a tweet and think they've accomplished something. And all the angry poets have been psycho-medicated into compulsive harmony. --bks
Tikrit and Baiji are two hours *by car* from Baghdad. Someone in the VOA video should explain why a better-armed force 100x the size of the opponents cannot capture that territory in a few days. If I have the demographics right, the road from the Embassy to the Airport is through Sunni areas of Baghdad. Better evacuate now. --bks
I hope we can support Clinton without rooting for the the saber-rattling. I've been doing everything I can to get her elected, but she has to be wrenched out of the grasp of the neoconservative hawks.
Trump did us a big favor by unloading on George W. Bush.
I have no idea what the U.S. strategy is in Syria. Why is Assad worse than whatever would replace him?
Good. Hopefully there will be peace before the mess in Syria is laid at the feet of Hillary Clinton.
Now people just send off a tweet and think they've accomplished something. And all the angry poets have been psycho-medicated into compulsive harmony. --bks
Tikrit and Baiji are two hours *by car* from Baghdad. Someone in the VOA video should explain why a better-armed force 100x the size of the opponents cannot capture that territory in a few days. If I have the demographics right, the road from the Embassy to the Airport is through Sunni areas of Baghdad. Better evacuate now. --bks