When We Don’t Learn From Our Mistakes…
... we tend to repeat them. Last night, President Obama told the American people that we learned nothing from the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld-Rice-Powell debacle that was our last invasion of Iraq. Somehow, this administration learned nothing from its predecessors. One lesson they should have learned is that you can't bomb your way to peace. It's just plain impossible. So what should we be doing about the legitimate horror that is ISIS (or ISIL or the Islamic State)? Stephen Miles, Advocacy Director at Win Without War joined me on the show this morning with response to last night's address. Before the speech began, [...]
Life in an Alternate Reality
There are some people who just see conspiracy theories everywhere they go. Alex Jones, for example, finds an alternative for every official piece of information every day. Whether he believes his own bullshit or not is irrelevant; he has lots of followers who do. The same goes for Glenn Beck who lives in Glenn Beckistan - an alternate world where he knows everything, despite what is true in our world. In short, Beck is convinced, despite reports to the contrary, that this Saudi national is an al Qaeda operative who successfully recruited the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the Boston bombing and now [...]