Syria is like a military-grade ammunition depot already surrounded by high winds and raging fire, firebreak neutralized, and with few, if any, fire companies available. No forecast of rain. John McCain wants to fire “stand-off” rockets at it.
McCain To Syria : “Herrrrrrrre’s Johnny!!!” Why does McCain continue to occupy a pre-eminent place among America’s foreign policy experts? There are few among us more irresponsible about the lives and fortunes of others, his country’s – or other countries’ – men and women . . .
Enter Jason Richwine, a reputed Harvard-trained Ph. D, now experiencing his 15 minutes of infamy. Surely, as fervently as a New England Congregationalist might, folks associated with Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) hope Richwine’s notoriety quickly fades.
Michael Matthew Bloomer, April 26, 2013 Last night, from Abu Dhabi, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel revealed certain intelligence assessments of Syria’s suspected use of chemical weapons against Syrian rebels and civilians, or at...
Quo Vadis? Where are you going? The Papal Conclave in Vatican City after two days and five ballots the 115-member Cardinal electors 1 chose its 266th Pope, a 76 year-old pastoral Argentinian, Cardinal Jorge...
Après cela le déluge ? At 63, with memories of our country drip, drip, dripping into foreign entanglements, I had an “Uh Oh” reaction when I read today’s Reuters report that President Obama has deployed more military...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 18, 2013 Much of the time South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham reminds me of a grade school pest, someone you want to swat away. Lately his insistence on “Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!”...
“Were you right or wrong, Senator?” John McCain to Chuck Hagel about Hagel’s disagreement with the Iraq surge At the Senate “advise and consent” confirmation hearing yesterday John McCain had so little self-knowledge that...
