The "near miss" at Taba is being widely promoted as the natural starting point for future Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy. The only problem, is there was no "near miss."
Sinaloa's maverick governor and his team have turned a narco-trafficking hellhole into a civic and commercial success. Maybe their formula can be franchised.
The attack against the UN compound in Iraq was a deliberate statement by anti-American guerilla forces that the United States does not fully control postwar Iraq.
Accused of being a "champion of empire" and "nibbling on the edges of stale ideas that pass for hard thought," Ferguson is a historian battling his own history.
There is much room for debate on the soundness of neoconservative policies. But a serious assessment of neocons and their role in the Bush Administration is a necessary starting point.
