By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  August 11th at 09:16 PM  | 

Everything you need to know about the United States and France can be found in this video. Read more here. Vive le Michael Phelps.

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  August 8th at 01:55 PM  | 

Ron Suskind’s new book has spawned some discussion of a letter he claims was forged by the CIA on the direction of the Bush administration to gin up what he considers to be their fraudulant case for invading Iraq. It’s a little hard to follow, but as far as I can tell Suskind’s story is that the letter linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda was | Read More »

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 07:51 PM  | 

The great Russian dissident and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died at 89 in Moscow. What a life the man lived. In many ways, his story is the history of Russia over the last century as he went from a passionate belief in the promises of Marxism as a remedy for his country’s ills to a victim of the totalitarianism enabled by Marxism. His choice to | Read More »

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 10:14 AM  | 

Peter Rodman, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, has died of complications from leukemia. Rodman was a man of vision and practicality who gave his life to public service. You can know a person by the company he keeps, and Peter was a valued associate of Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld–a group that might not always agree | Read More »

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  July 15th at 03:09 PM  | 

Doug Feith testified to the House Judiciary Committee today on his role in GWOT detainee treatment, AKA the “Torture Narrative.” According to said narrative, the officially-sanctioned policy of systematic, brutal and illegal mistreatment of captured enemies led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib. One of the main documents of this story is Philippe Sands’ recent publication The Torture Team. Some in Congress found Sands’ | Read More »