This column first appeared in the 21 October 2007 edition of the Sunday Tribune. As somebody who once predicted oil would be below $20 a barrel after the Iraq war, I should make clear this is not investment advice. I take all my advice from a dart-throwing chimp anyway.
From the bottom of the barrel to [...]
$100 a Barrel? If we’re lucky
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Making way for a kinder, gentler Saddam
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments
This column first appeared in the 26 August 2007 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
Richard Delevan“I HATE Iraq. I wish we had never gone to the place.” Winston Churchill reached that conclusion in 1926 when asked for more funds to continue a tricky occupation.
On 15 September US commanding general David Petraeus reports progress about the “surge” [...]
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Pottery Barn Rule, revisited
March 25th, 2007 · No Comments
This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune in March 2007.
Richard Delevan
What if George W Bush got up this morning, wandered down to the East Room and told a shocked White House press corps what two-thirds of Americans want to hear: US combat forces would begin an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, to be completed [...]
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Wounds
March 11th, 2007 · No Comments
This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune in March 2007.
Richard Delevan
Here’s a Trivial Pursuit question: in which war was a combat soldier more likely to sustain a head injury - World War One or World War Two? You might think, well, technology got better. Steel helmets were only introduced into the trenches in the [...]
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10,000 Iraqis moving per week?
December 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments
All this stuff about to come out from the Baker Commission/Iraq Study Group on future US policy in Iraq has the whiff of irrelevancy. NY Times columnist David Brooks has been trotting out this stat over the last couple of weeks on the talk shows like PBS NewsHour - though not, far as I can [...]
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