Donald Trump recounted the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the following manner: He [Baghdadi] died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming. The compound had been cleared by this time, with people either surrendering or being shot and killed. Eleven young children were moved out of the house…
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The foreign policy debate: Wouldn’t it be nice if we had one?
I realize that the recent terrorist attack in San Bernardino may forbid rational discussion of any topic for the next six months, or even longer. Still, wouldn’t be nice to have foreign policy discussion that consisted of more than a choice between Tweedle-Dick and Tweedle-Hillary? I mean, I’m not asking for six degrees of separation,…
Thank you, Washington Post!
I am often not a fan of the Washington Post, but, well, May 22nd was an unusual day, a day on which Post reporters Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung lowered the boom on David “Lover Boy” Petraeus, explaining how Dave’s “toot your horn/cover your ass” approach to congressional relations helped create a monumental PR headache for the not…
Too Late!
The Daily Beast’s Daniel Klaidman reports that the Obama Administration is giving the military exclusive control of drone murders, instead of sharing with the CIA. Quoting one of several faceless and ballless sources, Dan comes up with the following: “Barack Obama has got to be concerned about his legacy,” says one former adviser. “He doesn’t…
Tampa Socialites Behaving Badly
What Jill hath wrought, eh? Beware of FBI agents, baring chests. Perhaps if the FBI didn’t regard itself as a favor machine for dudes trying to make it with busty married chicks* we wouldn’t be in this mess. FBI DUDE # 1: “Do you think there’s even a possibility of a crime here?” FBI DUDE…
A tub for Petreaus
Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan notes that “The White House debate over how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next month is really a surrogate for a larger, more fractious debate over the wisdom and strategy of the war itself.” And Fred, being Fred, also notes that this is really really important and we ought…