Comments on: Don’t Know Much About History

By: Bud Simons

Bud Simons — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:27:57 +0000

The U.S. hasn’t competently used its military to create empire since the Spanish-American war. A splendid little war, as wars go.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:27:06 +0000

That’s, Quagmire. Quagmire. Quagmire. With a ‘Q’.

By: Bradley Denton

Bradley Denton — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:47:02 +0000

Molly Ivins was right with you, Caroline.
Paul Krugman’s NYTimes “Missing Molly Ivins” editorial, which was reprinted in the Austin American-Statesman today, points out that she predicted the current stinking mess over and over again. One quote, from July 2003: “I opposed the war in Iraq because I thought it would lead to the peace from hell, but I’d rather not see my prediction come true and I don’t think we have much time left to avert it. That the occupation is not going well is apparent to everyone but Donald Rumsfeld. We don’t need people with credentials as right-wing ideologues and corporate privatizers — we need people who know how to fix water and power plants.”
Where, indeed, are the Romans when you need them?

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:01:46 +0000

Superb post, Caroline. The whole Iraq thing makes me want to tear my hair and jump up and down, because it’s all been so pointless.

I am also gnashing teeth over the rumblings that appear to be going on over the surge, not to mention the chest thumping about Iran, that smells way too much like what they were doing pre-Iraq. We elected a Democratic leadership; I sure hope they put a stop to all this.