We Can’t Afford War By Amy Goodman —
The U.S. will eventually negotiate its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The only difference between now and then will be the number of dead, on all sides, and the amount of (borrowed) money that will be spent.

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The Wound McChrystal Opened By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
Gen. Stanley McChrystal put President Barack Obama in an impossible position. That is why McChrystal had to go.

General Discharge By Robert Scheer —
Rolling Stone’s definitive piece on the “Runaway General” establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure as an egotistical flake whose half-baked Afghan war-fighting strategy should never have been endorsed.

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On BP, Obama makes the pundits look like fools
As commentators fussed over the stagecraft of his BP speech, Barack Obama delivered -- big-time
By Gene Lyons
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Treat Palestinians Like Jews
By Robert Scheer —
If nothing else, this assault on decency by the Israeli government was clearly intended to derail the peace talks that President Barack Obama has encouraged. But instead of calling Israel on its savagery, the U.S. is virtually alone in the world in its embarrassingly mild rebuke.
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Why Israel should have known better
An Israeli journalist wonders why his nation's leaders stupidly ordered the raid on the Mavi Marmara.
by Joe Conason

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper

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Don't invade Kagan's privacy
Elena Kagan is a legal scholar and advocate, not a gay-baiting politician. Her sexuality should not be an issue
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Singer, actress Lena Horne dies at 92
The first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio, she went on to achieve international fame as a singer.

Will We Keep Hating the Government?
By E.J. Dionne —
Ever heard the one about the guy who hated government until a deregulated Wall Street crashed, an oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a coal mine collapsed, and some good police work stopped a terrorist attack?

What We Learned From Times Square
By Joe Conason —
Within hours after the car bomb fizzled in Times Square, the nonstop noise resumed on Fox News and talk radio, warning that the Barack Obama administration is failing to protect us.
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