It’s August, Jill. Like the French, the Hedgemony goes on vacation in August.
]]>The Big News Of The Day that isn’t getting much coverage is that Gee Dub was writing those famous checks with his mouth that his government couldn’t cash and may well be as complicit in this disaster as he was in our disastrously failed occupation of Iraq…
]]>Anyone who thinks Ossetians are going to say anything bad about their new overlords, the Russians, is crazy. They survived under the Soviet system and know the rules – you back the group with the most guns.
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]]>oh, wait… the only thing i remember from turkish class is how to say daylight and quick! hide! the police are looking for you! so maybe i should keep my day job.
yeah, the turkey problem puzzles me too. i’ve been saying all along that the idea wasn’t to fix iraq [or iran or_____] necessarily, but to keep the region in turmoil if we couldn’t control it. in that light, this administration has been very competent, rather than the incompetence that’s often alleged. but i have to admit, ignoring turkey does just make it look like it might be plain old incompetence after all.
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