Yesterday was September 10, 2014, and to mark the occasion, the president of the United States decided to give a speech that had a September 10, 2001 mindset about it. I suppose that I could take the time to fisk it (hey, remember fisking?), but I'm rather lazy this evening, and frankly, what is the …
Still “Ready for Hillary”?
I would like to take this moment to join others in pointing out that the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination sounds very much like the kind of person most Democrats would call a "neoconservative." While there are a lot of Democrats who claim that come 2016, they will be fully and completely "Ready for Hillary," I …
Now Angering Both Old and New Europe: Victoria Nuland
Remember when Donald Rumsfeld made a distinction between "old" and "new" Europe? Remember how undiplomatic it supposedly was? Remember how many people got upset as a consequence? Well, Victoria Nuland saw and raised the former secretary of defense: Germans were already smarting from revelations that U.S. intelligence listened in on the phone conversations of Chancellor …
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Pejman Yousefzadeh 