This article in the Washington Post about how Democrats are “recalibrating” their position on Iraq given the “good news” coming out of Iraq is extremely depressing. It betrays a dangerously low level of knowledge about the situation on the ground in Iraq. First of all, Hillary Clinton was absolutely right when she told the VFW: [...]

to the VFW today represents a new demagogic low, even for him. The notion that the non-nation of Iraq, a colonial contraption cobbled together from disparate provinces of the Ottoman Empire by the British in 1918, can in any way be compared to the deeply homogenous Asian countries of Japan, Korea and Vietnam is so [...]

Should the networks and interest groups that have been sponsoring the seemingly endless series of debates and candidate forums start limiting their invitations to those contenders who seem, by whatever definition, “viable”? Having so many candidates onstage fighting for air time does make it harder to come up with any format that goes beyond gotcha [...]

After all these months of rejecting comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq, President Bush now embraces them: “Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left,” Mr. Bush said. “Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of [...]

Close observers of this space may have noticed that we’re a little short-handed in the Swamp this week. And judging from some of the comments that have been getting past the content filter, the High Sheriffs are all passed-out drunk again. So with no one to stop me, I have hired Assistant Managing Editor and [...]