Archive for January, 2006
Victor Jara is Smiling In Heaven
Just a quick Sunday night note to salute my Chilean peeps, you know who you are, and share their joy at the election of President Michelle Bachelet, who the media likes to remind us is a “left wing single mother,” and perhaps more importantly, the daughter of one of Pinochet’s victims. (Her father, a former [...]
The Resistable Rise of Ariel Sharon
Sharon’s defeat of the Palestinians was sealed in Washington: Not only did he tear up Oslo; he tore up U.S. Middle East policy and got the administration to thank him for it 1. Arafat Gone, His Rival Patriarch Leaves the Scene “History is made by stomach complaints,” my friend and colleague Jamil Hamad told me [...]
Bush and the Republican Mutiny
Huggy-Bear McCain has proved a more nettlesome opponent to Bush than the Dems A little over a year ago, my then-weekly appearance on CNN International happened to coincide with President Bush’s inauguration, so I found myself in the unusual position of having to play pundit on Washington politics. I remember the anchor suggesting that the [...]
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