Diplomacy Helped To Calm the Chaos. That is, there is no civil war. Ralph Peters echoes the same sentiment. There is terrorism, fighting and unrest but that is not civil war or even a sectarian one. It's just that. Chaotic, deadly and very bad. It is important that we call things what they are. That goes for success as well as failure. The media has been licking it's chops waiting release the prepackaged "CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ" storyline. Unfortunately for them, this ain't it. Read the article. As the hed suggests, it was the use of diplomacy, not force of arms that won the day. Maybe we're learning something afterall.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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