The big news in bated breath anticipation of outcomes hopefully serving American geopolitical interests is the Iraqi election on May 7. The stakes are high, whoa-ho-ho!, so CNN sits down with its resident foreign expert guy, Fareed Zakaria. The main question on every Americans mind is, Will the trillions of dollars spent and thousands of [...]

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Frank Rich gets to the heart of magical thinking that guides American foreign policy:
Americans want our country to be secure. Most want Obama to succeed. And so we hope that we won’t get bogged down in Afghanistan while our adversaries regroup elsewhere, that the casualties and costs can be contained, that the small, primitive Afghan [...]

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This cartoon will change your mind. Whatever you think now, you will stop thinking after reading this cartoon. In fact, you will stop thinking, period. Your brain will shut down. Soon all other biological processes will cease to function and you will begin to decompose. Before reading this cartoon, call your attorney to update your [...]

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Pulling out of my funk, I posted a new cartoon (as I warned on twitter and FB, it’s tasteless and unsubtle – suitably, I think) that I have been stewing on for two weeks about the Pentagon’s request for troop escalations in Afghanistan. Oddly I thought this would be a bit post-date, but today Obama [...]

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At the Wall Street Journal, conservative opposition to the war in Afghanistan is just part of the “out of power” grudge against a President of the opposite party. Here’s the argument:
The weakening public support for continuing the counterinsurgency campaign is not surprising. In the midst of an economic crisis people are tempted to draw inward. [...]

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