The truce between Israel and the Palestinians seems to be holding, despite two attacks by militants todayOn MSNBC. [source]
Congress barred military aid to countries that had failed to agree by July 1, 2003, not to bring U.S. personnel before the International Criminal Court established last year.Human rights groups and NGOs are in a dither at the mean US "trying to blackmail smaller, weaker nations". Bummer. You want the cash, you play the game. [source]
the majority of the American media who were in a position to comment upon the progress of the war [in Iraq] in the early going, and even after that, got it wrong. They didn't get it just a little wrong. They got it completely wrong. And many of these same people had gotten it wrong in much the same way a year-and-a-half earlier, portraying U.S. forces in Afghanistan as facing the most inhospitable kind of terrain imaginable, not to mention the most dug-in and difficult-to-find enemy ever confronted.[source]I remember joking on FOX News Sunday during the Afghanistan conflict that pretty soon someone in the media would report that our bombing of the enemy was actually helping the enemy. And sure enough, about a week later, there was a story in the Washington Post […]the thrust of which was that U.S. bombing was making the Taliban more popular! […] This level of imperviousness to reality is remarkable. It is consistent and it continues over time.
"I'm not sure where Arnold [Schwarzenegger] gets his political instincts. People often say that for Kennedys, it's in the water."--Sen. Ted Kennedy, quoted by the Associated Press, June 27[source] It's certainly in the water for Ted, as if he weren't a major political figure he'd been rotting in jail. But that's just water under the bridge now…