Month June 2010

McChrystal

Maybe he’ll get fired, maybe not. But for a general to make comments like that shows, I think, how badly the Afghanistan war is going.

Abstaining from bad sects

Sectarianism, left cadre organizations, and ultra-leftism too often create a squabbling, ineffective, sometimes fanatical left, filled with schisms and splinter groups. Chip Berlet explores this in an article written in 1999 but just as true now. An excerpt. Ultra-leftism is…