Democrat Congress Fail on Every Issue… Lame duck Congress Here’s a story: “Democrats Look Ahead as Veto Override Falters — With little expectation of overriding President Bush’s veto, Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they would pass a new bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children, but were willing to tweak it to […]

“Kurdish separatist rebels said on Friday they were crossing back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said it was preparing to attack them in the mountains of northern Iraq. As regional tensions rose, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan cautioned that relations between Ankara and Washington were in danger over a U.S. congressional resolution […]

In Response to: Which, goes a way to explaining why we’ve spent more money reconstructing Iraq than Germany and Japan but have received inferior results. And in the interests of “keep most of what you earn” apply to today as well as tomorrow? Are you concerned about the massive budget deficit we’ve built. Don’t you […]

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 […]

In Response to: Second, could you point me to another example in history in which this type of war strategy has worked? Arguments from history sort of stink because you always have to make arguments by analogy, but useful examples seem to be the American Revolution, American Reconstruction, American-Filipino War, Soviet-Afghan War and the Algerian […]