Someone send me some medication. Something must be wrong with me. I agree — or mostly agree — with Charles Krauthammer. There is a need to bring the Sunnis into the Iraqi government, which will require a declaration of amnesty for insurgents.
This doesn’t mean I think we should stay in Iraq. We must leave, and as quickly as possible. Let the Iraqis — with help from the United Nations and money from us — make their own decisions and begin the hard work of rebuilding their war torn nation.
Some editorials on yesterday’s Hamdan decision that the president ought to read, but probably won’t:
And Dan Froomkin’s Whitehouse Briefing column offers a terse thumbs-up for a ruling that re-establishes constitutional checks and balances while Eugene Robinson sums it up this way: (T)he Supreme Court finally called George W. Bush onto the carpet yesterday and asked him the obvious question: What part of ‘rule of law’ do you not understand?”
L.A. Times rock critic Ann Powers offers a trenchant look at the state of protest music — which goes beyond the usual suspects to include a rather broad and eclectic mix of artists.
There are a lot of ways you can judge a draft, but i think I like Dave Zirin‘s approach best.
Here’s this week’s Dispatches, on the right-wing attack on The New York Times. Here is The Washington Post on the same thing.
