False Choices, And Those Who Love Them

James Baker gets it right in his opinion piece in today’s Washington Post: Stability in Iraq and peace between Palestinians and Israelis can be pursued at the same time. In fact, working toward the latter improves the chances of attaining the former. The road to peace does not run through just Jerusalem or just Baghdad. … Read more

NOW He Tells Us…

A headline from NBC: “Investigation Of Lewinsky Bad Idea, Starr Says”. — OK, it turns out that what he actually said was that someone else should have done the investigation so as not to give the impression that it was connected to his previous investigation of Whitewater, but the headline was too delicious to pass up.

Since Starr says that the investigation was important since “it reinforced the proposition that all of us are subject to the law, no matter how high our station”, I append a letter I sent to Clinton on this topic at the time, below the fold.

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A Fighting Faith

Reader JWO writes: “Has anyone read the article “A Fighting Faith,” by Peter Beinart, in today’s New Republic? I would love to see this discussed on this blog.” We at ObWi live to serve, so here’s a post on it. Since it’s behind a subscription wall, I’ll excerpt below the fold.

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Another Torture Post

It would be nice if I never had to write another post about torture — not, admittedly, as nice as never having had to write one at all, but since my standards are dropping, right now I’d take it. No such luck. The Washington Post reports: “A confidential report to Army generals in Iraq in … Read more