In Response to: The first is: what does victory Iraq look like and how long do you think it will take to get there? Is victory a strong stable secular democracy? What would the levels of violence need to be at in order to withdraw troops, roughly equivalent to American society, does it need to […]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York this last weekend for his whirlwind tour. He was at Columbia University Monday. This is a state sponsor of terrorism, a man who has sworn the destruction of the United States and Israel a number of times, and the people at Columbia think they are opening themselves up to […]

During the last 10 million years, Earth has had 10 major ice ages and numerous smaller glaciations such as the recent Little Ice Age. Each major ice age has been followed by a warm period of about 10,000 years. We’re in a warm period now—more specifically, we’re at the end of one. Should we expect […]

Sept 10-07 Tom Lantos, who is co-chairing the committee (he’s from California) told Petraeus (I’m going to have to paraphrase this) that he knows — he, Lantos, and all Congress knows — that Petraeus and Crocker have been sent up there to convince the Congress and the American people that victory is at hand. Lantos […]

6 years later… Reflections on 9/11 I want you to take, especially with what is happening in the country today and around the world, the threats that we are faced with, take just a few seconds and recall how you felt on that day when you first saw pictures or when you first heard what […]