Cloudy Thinking

Richard Cohen writes in The Washington Post about his four personalities regarding first the Vietnam war, and now Iraq War II. It’s worth reading.

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Christy Hardin Smith writes at FireDogLake about how US forces have been ordered to end their search for a captured American soldier. Unbelievable.

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Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal “Is There Progress Through Loss?” It’s about how some number of loyal, conservative Republicans are saying that losing the 2006 elections may act as a wake-up call.

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The Washington Post reports that President George W. Bush said in today’s press conference: “If the people think we don’t have a plan for victory, they’re not going to support the effort.”

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Iraq is no longer the USA vs. insurgents, it’s Sunni vs. Shiites, and Kurds vs. Shiites. This state of affairs is called civil war.

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The ThinkProgress blog reports about a Rush Limbaugh radio interview of Vice President Cheney.

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Will Dunham writes via Reuters about the rising tide of US casualties and deaths in Iraq. It’s all bad news, and trending the wrong direction.

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It’s no longer possible to ignore that Iraq War II has become a quagmire. US causalities and war deaths are up significantly. It’s time for some fresh thinking.

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David Broder writes in The Washington Post about Independence Days.

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George Weigel writes in The Los Angeles Times The Pope Was Right.

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Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd and Chairperson Patricia Dunn in their clumsy and illegal handling of boardroom leaks have failed the corporate IQ (and integrity) test. How sad.

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Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, writes in The Los Angeles Times about how “Head-in-the-Sand Liberals” do not understand that Western civilization is at risk from Muslim extremists.

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