 |
 |
   Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gnter Grass still thinks reunification was a bad idea.
 Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
 With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
 The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something.
|
   |
|
|
February 27, 2009
By: "We Will Bring Our Troops Home" I find it hard to express how happy this makes me:
It's worth reading the speech in its entirety, because there are other very good things in it. President Obama addressed the people of Iraq directly, and I thought that both what he said and the fact that he spoke to them were very good. I was moved by his words to the men and women who have served in Iraq, and by this promise: "You and your families have done your duty - now a grateful nation must do ours." I was also very glad that he mentioned the nearly five million Iraqi refugees:
But the announcement of a date certain for the withdrawal both of combat troops and of all troops means more to me than anything. This horrible mistake of a war has cost so many people so much. It should never have been started. It will not be over for the Iraqis in 2011. But it will, at last, be over for us. —Hilzoy 11:30 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (10)Comments
Interesting how BHO has the inverse of FDR... who had the Great Depression, and then global war. Ending the Iraq war -- and i hope he will evolve to see regional diplomacy and not drones and killing as the solution to afghanistan -- will leave Barak the task of helping solve the global economic catastrophe. Global as was FDR's warfare, but economic as was FDR's first crisis. Posted by: neill on February 28, 2009 at 12:32 AM | PERMALINKWere not the goals of the preceding hoodlums on the hill to, train, equip, and advise Iraqi Security Forces? Posted by: JED on February 28, 2009 at 7:03 AM | PERMALINK...I hope he's right about this. But it sounds a bit like the Bushian/Rovian trick of misdirection by using terms like "combat mission ends" and turning it into a "support role" by "training, equipping, and advising" the Iraqi army. Even though the timeframe is backwards, this is how we got enmeshed in Viet Nam. Posted by: gordon on February 28, 2009 at 7:22 AM | PERMALINKAnd they're NOT coming home. No, no, next they're off to Afghanistan, for THAT neverending conflict. Nobody's comin' home. Posted by: Helena Montana on February 28, 2009 at 7:39 AM | PERMALINKlove waking up and checking out the garden... As a veteran of a misbegotten war in southeast Asia, I am pleased that we are getting out of Messopotamia. My preference would be much faster, but I believe that we need to cut Obama some slack on this. I continue to be concerned about our involvement in Afganistan. Over the centuries, that country has been the graveyard of empires. What I want to see is a plan that specifies what our objectives are and how we plan to end our presence there. That the Bush administrative did NOT fully pursue Bin Laden is one of the many criminal aspects of that administration. Still, it is necessary for Obama to NOT have an open-ended commitment in Afganistan. As a war protestor who marched on the capitol in 2003, I will be willing to march again this fall if I do not see goals and an exit strategy for Afganistan. Posted by: SadOldVet on February 28, 2009 at 8:02 AM | PERMALINKThe sole purpose of the trolls is to deflect the fact that the Iraq Crime --- and it was, is, and will forever be a Crime of the highest order --- will be linked eternally to the name of Bush/Cheney, and the pocket-lining of the Republican Party. Even their oft-times yet ill-invoked deity cannot wash the blood from their hands. Not even from the hands of the trolls.... Posted by: Steve W. on February 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM | PERMALINKWe also need to hear Bring home the troops from Afghanistan/Pakistan.Another debaucle waiting to happen and to deplete our coffers. Posted by: mljohnston on February 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM | PERMALINKi'm not concern trolling here, but folks should take a look at this interview with author tom ricks.....he thinks that obama is indulging in a bush-style pipedream... thoughts? Posted by: dj spellchecka on February 28, 2009 at 2:22 PM | PERMALINKJust as the crucifixion was over for Pilate when he washed his hands of it. I don't disagree with you--except to point out that one of the features of Bush's disastrous policy is that now we cannot escape responsibility for what occurs in Ira, even when our forces are greatly reduced there. Posted by: Gloomster on February 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM | PERMALINK
November 2009
October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 |
|
|
    |
|
||||||
|
|
|||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
