Bakestar wrote:Goo?

dajafi wrote:That's true. Also, great phrase.

I guess the seat could flip via midterm effect, but the premise likely requires more Republicans of the Sherry Boehlert stripe, not the Vito Fosella model. Was it Boehlert who had that seat before Gillebrand?

dajafi wrote:That's true. Also, great phrase.

I guess the seat could flip via midterm effect, but the premise likely requires more Republicans of the Sherry Boehlert stripe, not the Vito Fosella model. Was it Boehlert who had that seat before Gillebrand?

jerseyhoya wrote:I'll take "People I'd Love To See In Jail" for 400, Alex.

dajafi wrote:I always thought Carville looked more like a lizard.

He and Mary Matalin totally should have been cast as a villainous couple of Voldemort followers in the Harry Potter movies. Bonus: they wouldn't really have to act.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

Of course, a lot will depend on the terms of reference he has been given. Ultimately, however, no matter how good he might be, George Mitchell will not produce a negotiated agreement in the Middle East. That is for the Israeli government and the Palestinians. But to have any hope of achieving that goal, the US and the international community have to engage with this issue in a concentrated way and treat the participants on the basis of equality.

In an outspoken assessment of the terror risk facing Britain, Gordon Brown's security adviser was scathing about the assertion, made by Tony Blair when prime minister, that foreign policy did not alter the UK's risk of a terror attack.

"We never used to accept that our foreign policy ever had any effect on terrorism," he said. "Well, that was clearly bollocks."

"The business in Gaza has not helped us at all in our counter-radicalism strategy. We have key people in the Muslim community who we are in dialogue with, and they are quick to let us know there is an issue that is causing us a worry.

"They said it was coming over very badly. It fits in with the al-Qaida message, so we have to be very quick to respond to that and we have been quick to make sure that for Friday prayers, it is clear what our position is.

"The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common," Miliband argues, in a clear reference to the signature rhetoric of the Bush era. "We should expose their claim to a compelling and overarching explanation and narrative as the lie that it is."

"Terrorism is a deadly tactic, not an institution or an ideology," he says.

He argues that "the war on terror implied a belief that the correct response to the terrorist threat was primarily a military one - to track down and kill a hardcore of extremists". But he quotes an American commander, General David Petraeus, saying the western coalition in Iraq "could not kill its way out of the problems of insurgency and civil strife".