As I've said before, nothing signals a Must To Avoid more than a positive book review that describes an unreadable book. Such is the case with Robert Dallek's review of a new book about Condi Rice by official Bush administration mash note writer Elisabeth Bumiller....
the Fiasco
Franklin Foer has officially withdrawn his support for the reporting of Scott Beauchamp. I'm not terribly surprised with how this turned out, having thought from the beginning that the stories.
According to an FBI investigation, most of the September 16 Blackwater killings were unjustified:Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi.
Roger Cohen complains that "Germany, Spain and Italy" are being insufficiently "flexible" about the use of military force. And it would probably be desirable for these countries to send more troops to Afghanistan, although to claim that this makes them "pacifist" is silly. The huge...