This is lovely (ADD: writing, obviously), if such a thing can be said, from Time’s Mark Kukis, about how it feels to live in Baghdad right now.
I may have made a mistake in my column this week about the FISA legislation passed by the House, although it’s difficult to tell for sure given the technical nature of the bill’s language and fierce disagreements between even moderate Republicans and Democrats on the Committee about what the bill actually does contain. Democrats say [...]
Fred Kaplan of Slate is excellent, as always, in his analysis of the importance of David Petraeus coming home, briefly, to chair the Army promotions board. I agree with Matt Yglesias’s concerns, especially this one: The trouble here is that though the counterinsurgency people are, I think, generally correct about the sort of scenarios we [...]
