Excerpt for today: “Colonizing Iraq — The Obama Doctrine?” By Michael Schwartz , posted at TomDispatch, 9 July 2009 Here’s how reporters Steven Lee Myers and Marc Santora of the New York Times described the highly touted American withdrawal from Iraq’s cities last week: “Much of the complicated work of dismantling and removing millions of dollars …
M E M O R A N D U M To:            Ambassador Crocker From          Manuel Miranda, Office of Legislative Statecraft Date:          February 5, 2008 Re:            Departure Assessment of Embassy Baghdad  Foreign Service and the State Department’s bureaucracy at the helm of America’s number one policy consideration. You are simply not up to the task, and …
Truly cracked advice to the State Department, receiving wide applause Read More »
