Max Boot and the Colonialist Mentality

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. I’ve been occupied with organizational issues for the past week, but I didn’t want to let it pass without highlighting a passage in...

Mystery Achievement

All that blather about how the Israelis hit a "nuclear site" or a site with "nuclear materials" in Syria the other week was really just a lot of hooey, but then again you knew that. Otherwise they wouldn't have kept it such a Deep Dark Secret, now would they? Surely...

Those Mugs

Daniel Larison nails it: "Neocons were once 'liberals mugged by reality,' but now they are people who would like to mug reality–and strafe it and bomb it–in the name of liberalism (broadly defined)."Â