Is this what they mean when they say our military iis “broken“?

Is this what they mean when they say our military iis “broken“? Well, then, so is this family, along

with god knows how many others.

A conservative blogger comments on my recent column on the Litvinenko affair:

It has become a very strange time indeed when I find myself in complete agreement with an anti-MBT

SHOES liberal. In this case it is on the Litvinenko incident, and the argument laid out is an excellent

synopsis of my posts on this matter. My impression of liberals has been inching upMBT SHOESd recently,

as I see clear examples of independent thinking and not accepting the PR that issues out of the

mainstream media. This is a good sign to me that everyone is breaking their mental shackles that tie

them to the error prone media giants.

Independent thinking isn’t the monopoly of any particular political persuasion — but, in any event,

who is he calling a “liberal“?

Worth reading — Juan Cole on Gerald Ford’s foreign policy. An excerpt:

All presidents make errors, and some abuses occurred on Ford’s watch, though they often were initiated

by Kissinger. But Ford faced with no illusions the challenges of his era, of detente with the Soviet

Union, continued attempts to cultivate China, the collapse of Indochina, the fall-out of the 1973 Arab

-Israeli MBT SHOES, and the beginnings of the Lebanese Civil MBT SHOES. Ford was right about detente,

right about China, right about Arab-Israeli peace, right about avoiding a big entanglement in Angola,

right to worry about nuclear proliferation (one of his worries was the increasing evidence that the

Middle East had a nuclear power, Israel, and India was moving in that direction).