I’m no fan of Iran, but if Americans stopped for a second and reversed the roles, we might approach the relationship differently. Image Iranian spies had instigated and funded a successful coup against the President Eisenhower in 1953 and replaced him with a brutal dictator. Imagine more recently they invaded and occupied Canada and Mexico,…
You gotta dance with them what brung ya, unless them what brung ya is under the bleachers blowing a banker, taking in from behind by a Chinese outsourcing firm part owned by an American multinational, and giving hand jobs to oil and pharma CEOs. In that case, you dance with whomever pleases you and you…
Suddenly Afghanistan is closer and more dangerous At lunch I bumped into an old bike racing buddy, who tells me over a parting handshake that he is leaving for Afghanistan tomorrow to take a job with a defense contractor. The recession has devastated his small business. “Good money, I hope?” “Oh yeah,” he smiles. “Money’s…
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