This item about the President’s YouTube allergy started me thinking…. Given the generally irreverent and, well, liberal tone of the questions last night–and the general skew of the YouTube audience leeward, do you think it’s possible that some of the Republican candidates are having second thoughts about participating in their version of the CNN/YouTube debate [...]
The arguments made in the New York Times today by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, former Clinton NSC officials, about the Pentagon’s bureaucratic incapacity to plan and execute small-scale anti-terrorist operations is persuasive enough. As the two of them note, despite the fact that the Special Operations Command budget has ballooned since 9/11, DOD too [...]
