All summer, Bush has been insisting that we wait for official government reports on Iraq before we judge whether his surge strategy has worked or failed. Well, the GAO is reportedly on track to "conclude that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks set to judge the Iraqi government's performance…
It always pains me to see powerful leaders fail to understand the concept of sunk costs. In this case, the leader I refer to is Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, who recently expressed the mistaken belief that America's past death toll of U.S.…
According to this article, Al-Qaida can thank George Bush for its growing power in Iraq. Though Saddam had no taste for Al-Qaida terrorists, because the belonged to the wrong branch of Islam, Al-Qaida has apparently flourished under George Bush's military occupation. So much for winning the war on terrroism.
The Bush Administration reported this week that despite six years of waging war against al-Qaeda, losing more than 3,600 American lives, spending nearly half a trillion dollars, and decimating the nation of Iraq (the so-called "front line in the war on terrorism"), it has neverless failed to seriously cripple the…
As if America's widespread religious beliefs were not evidence enough of America's superstitious beliefs, last Saturday's flood of marriages should end any speculation. l refer, of course, to the relatively large number of Americans who jumped at the chance to get married on July 7, 2007 -- reportedly on the…