Jon Stewart leaves his "Daily Show" on Comedy Central. What a loss. Stewart provided a counter-image of the United States to the world using political satire.
The situation in Iraq highlights Obama's dilemma: In his foreign policy, he often acts with one eye on U.S. domestic policy, and can be alarmingly passive and indecisive.
I wonder how it is even possible to be able to run operations where you have the right to keep secret what chemicals you're spraying into the bedrock, and this, in a country that's absurd when it comes to other forms of security.