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“So Wrong, So Often”: Welcome Back To Reality, Neocons
Here’s an amazing fact that most of the Chicken Little rhetoric about the crisis in Iraq fails to take into account: The city of Mosul, population 1.5 million, fell to ISIS insurgents because two...
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“They Have Earned The Right Not To Be Listened To”: All They’re Doing Is...
In mid-January 2002, the Weekly Standard published a piece from Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol on the need for a U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. The headline read, “What to do...
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“How Dumb Do We Have To Be?”: Should We Listen To Those Who Were Wrong On...
Last week, I wrote a post over at the Washington Post expressing amazement that so many of the people who were so spectacularly wrong on Iraq in 2002 are now returning to tell us what we should do...
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“No Remaining Credibility”: 5 Iraq ‘Experts’ Who Are Always Wrong About Iraq
American pundits have an unusual profession; it is one of the only careers in which repeated, catastrophic, and humiliating failures seem to do nothing to prevent one from continuing to find work. Just...
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“Some People Never Learn”: What Happens When You Listen To Conservatives And...
It’s surprisingly easy to compose a list of the 25 stupidest things Bush administration officials said about the invasion of Iraq, and no such list can be remotely comprehensive. For example, the list...
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“A Very Low Bar”: The Smart Brother? Why Jeb Bush Can’t Escape Dubya’s...
Being singled out as “the smart brother” in an American political and financial dynasty like the Bush family must be a heavy load. But Jeb Bush went far to dispel that burdensome description with his...
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“Fraternity Of Failure”: GOP Men And Women United By A Shared History Of...
Jeb Bush wants to stop talking about past controversies. And you can see why. He has a lot to stop talking about. But let’s not honor his wish. You can learn a lot by studying recent history, and you...
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“The Politics Of War”: We Endanger The Peace And Confuse All Issues When We...
This Memorial Day the nation remembers all those people who died while serving in the American armed forces. More than 1,316,000 military personnel have died during military conflicts in this nation’s...
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“The Chief Mess-Maker As A Consultant”: Can Jeb Bush Ever Escape His...
Jeb Bush has firmly established himself as the Republican to vote for if you wish his brother were still president. Best of luck with that. In what was billed as a major foreign policy speech Tuesday,...
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“Trump Speaks The Truth”: The Donald Has The Better Of Jeb Bush In Their Spat...
Here at the Country Mart, on the edge of Brentwood and Santa Monica, politics is not on the menu. The Sunday talk shows are no big thing. Imagine, people are not that excited about Hillary Clinton’s...
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