Quickhits
Two editorials this morning describing how the administration's "push for democracy" to reshape the middle east has been a vast failure. EJ Dionne in the WaPo, and Yochi J. Dreazen in the WSJ.
Less than two months after voting overwhelmingly to build 370 miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico, the Senate yesterday voted against providing funds to build it. (Moonie Times)
New AP-Ipsos polling is good news for the Dems in the midterms, small sample, though. The poll was conducted after the Shia neighborhood killings in Iraq, but before the current Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
The NYTimes obliquely connects the rape and killings in Mahmoudiyah to an increase in the "moral waivers" allowed by the army in its recruiting desperation.
Less than two months after voting overwhelmingly to build 370 miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico, the Senate yesterday voted against providing funds to build it. (Moonie Times)
New AP-Ipsos polling is good news for the Dems in the midterms, small sample, though. The poll was conducted after the Shia neighborhood killings in Iraq, but before the current Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
The NYTimes obliquely connects the rape and killings in Mahmoudiyah to an increase in the "moral waivers" allowed by the army in its recruiting desperation.
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