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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Monday, March 10, 2014

We Don't Need Dick Cheney's Advice


Yes, Vladimir Putin is an asshole and an imperialist.  He has blatantly stolen Crimea from Ukraine, refuses to give it back, and, like a schoolyard bully, is daring the world to do something about it.  There was nothing that could have been done to prevent it, and little agreement on how to react to it now.

But no, I don't think Obama should take any foreign policy advice from the likes of Dick Cheney and the other old neo-cons.  Because, you know . . . Iraq! 

Jon Stewart put it like this:  "Dick Cheney was on the job for 8 years and was wrong for every single day of it.  Toward the end, he shot his best friend in the face.  And some people still ask him for advice!"

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