Author: Rick B2

I read a good deal of history in the 60’s trying to figure out how the Communists were taking over countries. One thing that jumped out at me was that countries who tried to compromise and take members of the Communist...

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. made his demand that the House pass a deadline to withdraw from Iraq, which the Republicans modified to an idiotically simplistic and totally unreasonable bill to withdraw immediately in an effort to put...

What is the difference between an idealist and a realist in foreign policy? The difference is the beliefs of Wolfowitz and Scowcraft. This is an excerpt from the New Yorker article by Goldberg. The President’s foreign...

The problem at abu Ghraib was not some rogue reservists who stepped out of line. The problem was either a failure of command and control – or it was a specific policy by the Bush/Rumsfeld administration being carried out....

Rita is now a category 5 storm aimed for the Texas Coast. From AP on Yahoo: Forecasters said Rita could be the most intense hurricane on record ever to hit Texas, and easily one of the most powerful ever to plow into the U.S....