If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.It has been very tempting lately to do what many of us do about this time every election: Turn it all off. No more radio, TV or internet news. I’ve been this close. But I don’t think I can ignore or not say anything about a few of the …

Thus far the war in Iraq has been a war over many things, both concrete and abstract, stated and hidden. And those ideas seemed to have all morphed and adjusted and been realigned with disorientating rapidity. Before it was a war over democracy it was against a plausible neuclear/chemical/biological threat. Then a regime swap-out. Or to make progress in the war on terror. Or because of Al Queda’s links with Iraq. Or because of 9/11. It is revenge to some and a result of selfless world leadership to …