Archive for April 22nd, 2007
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
A Foreign Country
Sometimes reading the news from Iraq you have to wonder if it won’t take decades or even a century of changes before questions of politics and justice are seen in Iraq the way we view them, and therefore before Iraq develops the sort of government and society the administration was arrogantly expecting Iraq to instantly […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Monks Who Play Punk
Great article. Over to you, Spencer Ackerman.
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
You Knew It Was Coming
Gawker reports the launch of new business magazine Blogger & Podcaster.
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
A Disorderly Withdrawal?
Brad Plumer points to a National Journal story about the lack of planning for disengagement from Iraq:
in all probability, the United States is going to draw down some or most of its troops from Iraq sooner or later, regardless of whether the surge ends up pacifying Baghdad or not (likely not). Military experts all agree […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Asked and Answered
Ezra Klein asks about John Edwards:
A presidential campaign demands so many sacrifices. It rips you from your family, forces a ceaseless travel schedule, demands constant kowtowing to parochial primary voters, demands endless humiliating fundraising calls, and imposes a thousand indignities and inconveniences, some major, some minor. So why, in all that he is giving up, […]
