The cable news performance we're witnessing this crucial week is a case study in hysteria, onanism and pomposity that would make the authors of the First Amendment cry.
Kiss-and-tell books can get decent advances, but when authors confront the consequences of bean-spilling, an insidious self-censorship can chill the urge to confess.
For nearly six years, a supine press has given the Bush Administration veto-power over nomenclature. With any luck, the neo-Stalinist era of American political discourse is ending.
I think I have a way out of Iraq. Ok, so here's his lifeline: the first, real, true, clear, explicitly-stated mission for invading Iraq was to find Saddam's WMD. Mission complete!
I called Chalab to see if he was interested in running Iraq, but his voicemail gave a number for him in Teheran, and I don't care what the Baker group says, I'm not going to talk to Iran.