Category: Edgewise

  • Jail the Walter Read reporters!

    Defense Secretary Sends Stern Message About Accountability WP, 3/3/07 DKo: Shouldn’t they investigate the reporters for divulging the Army’s methods and resources for protecting the wounded? Jail the Walter Read reporters! WP Article Edgewise Readers. I’m duplicating this to make Edgewise links show up in the WP pages for both of their stories. They display…

  • Jail the Walter Reed Reporters!

    Army Secretary Ousted Second Firing Follows Walter Reed Revelations; Bush Vows a Probe, WP, 3/3/07 DKo: Shouldn’t they investigate the reporters for divulging the Army’s methods and resources for protecting the wounded? Jail the Walter Read reporters! WP Article

  • An Irresistible Reprise

    In light of stories like this one, I can’t resist reprising part of an Edgewise post from 11/9/06. Of course, it’s still just a start, and this week’s zig can be next week’s zag. First, the current story: The White House Gets Neighborly in the Middle East, WP, 2/28/07 “On Jan. 11,…Rice…explain[ed] why ‘those who…

  • The Isolation of George W. Bush

    [T]he neocons seem ready now to start acting unilaterally again [against Iran]….[A] grand bargain wouldn’t serve America’s purpose in the middle east…” DKo, 2/23/07 Well, there is “America’s purpose in the middle east,” and there are the neocons–increasingly two different animals. “America’s purpose,” (as defined by the ruling elites, and represented by the Iraq Study…

  • You Don’t Have to Be a Genius

    Diplomats Seek Way to ‘Reengage’ Iran, WP, 2/27/07 Really? They’re not “seeking” very hard. Try this: 1. START TALKS, without preconditions. 2. If you can’t make a deal, STOP TALKS. The WP article

  • Will the US Attack Iran?

    I think an attack on Iran has to be pre-opposed, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Sufficient in itself is the presence of American “hostage-troops” in Iraq. The vulnerable supply-lines from the south–and their personnel–would be ravaged by Iranians and Iraqi Shiites, including much of the Iraqi Army, cutting off the rest of…