Cut And Run

“U.S. to Aid Americans’ Lebanon Evacuation”
To be fair, if I was stuck in a conflict zone, I’d be thinking about getting out too. My point is that mindless slogans can cut both ways.
Josh Marshall writes:

Thinking back through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s — with key crises in each decade — I don’t think there’s any example where an American administration has so thoroughly marginalized itself or shown such impotence and irrelevance.

In watching Mr. Bush yucking it up with pig jokes on the world stage, I don’t know how you can conclude anything other than that we’re not seeing leadership from the world’s supposed leader.

Which World War Are We In Now?

Oh my, an uncoordinated rightist message. Guess that’s what happens when the party talking points don’t address an issue.
Wikipedia offers a good answer:

A world war is a military conflict affecting the majority of the world’s major nations. World wars usually span multiple continents, and are very bloody and destructive.
The term has usually been used to apply to two conflicts of unprecedented scale and slaughter that occurred during the 20th century. They were the First World War, also known as the Great War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945).
Some have claimed that the Cold War should be termed a “World War III” and some that the current “War on Terrorism” is “World War IV”. However, these characterisations have attracted little support outside the (largely ideological) groups that have used them.

Note the parenthetical in the last sentence.

War Drums

Just as they used September 11 as a pretext to march into Iraq, the neocon crowd is now heralding the current conflict in Lebanon as an opportunity to strike Iran. I expect the drum beats to get even louder in the coming days.
UPDATE: Limbaugh calls conflict a “gift” to the world. In a moment of candor, he also admits that the Iraq war was never supposed to stop at Iraq.

Senator Edwards At Facing South

Randy Neal scores an interview with Senator John Edwards.
I supported Edwards in the 2004 primary. And I think it’s key for the Democrats, if they ever want to win another election, to get back to their blue color roots by embracing the Senator’s message regarding poor and working class Americans.

BROM: Green Cities In South

Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine has a piece identifying the greenest cities in the South.
The list:
Carrboro, NC
Charlottesville, VA
Asheville, NC
Chattanooga, TN
Greenville, SC
Getting Greener:
Charlotte, NC
Washington DC
Virginia Beach, VA
Maryland (the whole state)
No sign of Knoxville. Interesting.