War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Hard to believe it’s Monday morning, seems like Friday was just yesterday, or a day earlier. Wet and gloomy here on California’s northern coast — seems a bit warmer, though, from the moist chill of the last week. News has a case of the Mondays. Ongoing is the titillating David Petraeus affair, a most-wonderful story…
All over the hotel, dignitaries, who had come to the capital to discuss the future of Afghanistan’s security, locked themselves in lavatories or hid under beds as the killing began. — The Telegraph, on the attack last week at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel Despite the slaughter at one of Afghanistan’s supposedly most-secure locations, President Obama still…