No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

Juan Cole tells where Bush is taking the US

Here is Juan Cole on recent actions in Iraq.

I said the other day I thought Bush was pushing Europe to the left with his policies. I think he is at the same time pushing the Shiite world to the radical Right, and I fear my grandchildren will still be reaping the whirlwind that George W. Bush is sowing in the city of Imam Husain. I concluded in early April that Bush had lost Iraq. He has by now lost the entire Muslim world.

Juan Cole has been telling us what was really happening all along, while the Bush people and the Neocons were listening to Ahmed Chalabi. Now we learn that Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress is an Iranian intelligence operation and has been all along.
Read Newsday. Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld have really blown it big time.

Not only have they NOT protected us from more 9/11-type events, they have set the middle east up into a situation that will cause a great deal more terrorists to develop, and they have made us the targets. If there were any more disastrous ways to screw things up, it is not at all clear what they might be.
posted by Richard at 9:57 AM