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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 12:37PM Never was the case so weak for throwing another $33 billion into the Afghanistan sinkhole, but that’s what a defensive US Congress did anyway on Tuesday evening. The vote was 308-114, with Republicans supplying most of the pro-war votes.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 01:36AM It's hard to watch Angelina Jolie's "Salt" without a fantasy stirring, a sense that the film bears too close a relationship to be accidental to the recent arrests and expulsions of the Russian sleeper spies. Whatever the origins of the movie, and fingerprints will be hard to find, it dramatizes the paranoid possibility that the Russians are plotting still, first to kill the Russian president at a New York funeral, then the American president in his bunker below the White House.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 02:02PM How would members of the Obama administration have reacted to racist pressure from the Deep South in the early 60s? Would they have fired Justice Department civil rights monitors who antagonized hard-line segregationists?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 06:34PM President Obama’s pledge to “begin” withdrawals in July 2011 is rendered virtually meaningless by this weeks’ endorsement of a 2014 timeline for Afghan troops to take over their country’s security. By then another 2,000 Americans could be dead and the cost of the war will reach one-trillion dollars.
Afghanistan, The Long War Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 01:34PM Rachel Maddow’s televised roadshow in Afghanistan ended last week with a one-hour personal interview with Richard Holbrooke, an “honor” she said. Maddow is very bright, witty, great in conversation, a pivotal person in the progressive community and among Democrats. But there was a potential Walter Cronkite moment in her interview, and Maddow passed on it.
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