Just sayin’: Gov. Wilder got literally everything wrong in his Politico op-ed
Gov. Doug Wilder's swing and a miss
No offense to the former Virginia governor, but literally everything in Doug Wilder’s Politico op-ed about President Obama’s “blackness” versus Bill Clinton’s was factually wrong. Read more
White House threatens veto over Gitmo, endless ‘war on terror’ provisions in defense bill
The president issues a veto threat over a House bill that would effectively make the war on terror permanent.
If a House bill extending the “global war on terror” beyond the post-9/11 mandate, and placing new restrictions on trying detainees and implementing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” manages to get through the Senate, the president will likely veto it. Read more
Catching bin laden: an alternate history; plus, the judo jihadi?
Osama bin Laden in the 80s? A judo instructor says it is.
What if the U.S. had captured Osama bin Laden alive, and attempted to put him on trial, instead of killing him? Read more
**UPDATED: You’ll just have to use your imagination. Obama nixes bin Laden photo release
Sorry, visual-hungry media, it’s a no. Read more
Behind the operation to get Osama bin Laden **UPDATED**
According to a senior White House official who briefed reporters Sunday night, the push to get bin Laden began in the earliest days of the Obama administration, when the president “formally instructed the intelligence community and his counterterrorism advisers to make the pursuit of Osama bin Laden, as the leader of al Qaeda, as a top priority.” Read more
Obama’s letter to Congress: dump oil subsidies
Senate Leader Harry Reid, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner
President Obama has written to House and Senate leaders asking them to end subsidies to Big Oil. Read more
Handcuffed to Gitmo: revelations from George Bush’s disaster prison, and why we’re still stuck with it
The latest Wikileaks disclosures show how big a botch job the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo is, and why we’re still stuck with it. Read more
Obama, Qaddafi, and the power to make war **2nd UPDATE: Salon attacks
UPDATE 3: Don’t tell Salon … 7 in 10 Americans support what we’re doing in Libya.
UPDATE 2: Salon’s Michael Lind issues a legalese-laden broadside against John Whitehouse that basically boils down to “ignore the parts of Article 42 that don’t make Obama a criminal.”
And John Whitehouse responds. Read more
**UPDATED** The U.S. (and U.N.) vs Qaddafi regime: how we got here
Put me down in the camp that has been extremely skeptical of the John McCain-Joe Lieberman-neocon zeal to get the U.S. involved militarily in Libya. I was from the start, foresquare against the invasion and occupation of Iraq and to my mind, any idea Paul Wolfowitz and Bill Kristol support is more than likely a bad one (ditto McCain and Lieberman.) But that was when the “war first” crowd was talking about a U.S.-enforced, unilateral no fly zone. A no fly zone is war, no matter what a neocon tries to tell you.
Still, now that this is a U.N. war operation, we’re in a rather different kind of war. Read more
Politics at the water’s edge? McCain and Lieberman conduct parallel foreign policy on Libya
McCain and Lieberman in Tahir Square.
John McCain and Joe Lieberman gave interviews to U.S. media outlets during a trip to Egypt Sunday, in which the two neoconservative Senators seemed to be conducting their own foreign policy; criticizing the president from foreign soil, calling on him to encourage protests in Iran, and even saying the Obama administration should supply arms to the Libyan opposition. Read more
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