First, Juan Cole this morning on Paris Hilton and 19,000 Iraqi prisoners. And from a few days ago, E.J. Dionne on Paris and Scooter. But I’m troubled by one quote in the column from the ineffable former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia: “If the public believes there’s one law for a certain group of people [...]
Tom Ricks has this to say about military planning in Iraq today. There are two important points here. The first is this: The immediate all-or-nothing debate in Washington over troop levels represents a false dilemma, some military officials said. Even if a total pullout is the goal, it could take a year to execute a [...]
I told Karen that our faithful commenters had asked after her; she’s tickled by your expressions of sympathy and good will and wants well-wishers to know that she’s recovering from surgery just fine and expects to be back on the job by the last week of June. In truth, it’s not like she’s really AWAY [...]
