Russ McBee

The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial: We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real danger of losing because Mr. Bush’s failed adventure in Iraq is eating up the Pentagon’s ...

Southern Beale was there, and she said: What was most interesting to me is how few National Guard soldiers had come out to see the president. I saw just three soldiers, although the motorcade passed right by the building. Maybe the rest of them were in Iraq.

I didn't realize this, but there's a species of badger that's indigenous to the Middle East (the honey badger, or ratel). Apparently, the residents of Basra didn't realize it either, since these critters have lately been moving out of the marshes and into town. The locals are accusing the British of introducing these beasts as a means of ...

On the US refusal to plan for the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's overthrow, Sir David Manning (Tony Blair's chief foreign policy advisor in 2002 and now the UK ambassador to Washington) said this: They may agree that failure isn't an option, but this does not mean that they will avoid it. Meanwhile, the mercenaries hired by the ...