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I criticized the last administration, and I criticized the lame bi-partisan efforts to analyze policy options for Iraq. The current administration is not bringing anything better to the table. We hear that President Obama is deliberating between various options to increase the level of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Apparently, all options call for more troops, and we're just arguing over how many. This shows how broken this process is. While the number of troops we commit to Afghanistan must mak… Continue

Hey Jim, Very interesting. Nice work. I'm not sure this war or any war can be fixed. The fix, indeed, is already in once the shooting starts and the bombs fall. Reading over this reminded me of the question/answer posed by Edwin Starr: War -- what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Which is simplistic, but not a bad place to start. Even the "best" wars involve stupidity, waste and horror. The Iraq War, meanwhile, takes all that to a new level. This one'll go down, I think, as a mindless misadve… Continue

Week 1:

1. Convert the entire book to HTML
   (in process, might take a while)
2. Invite people
   (You can do this, too!)
3. Set up Google Analytics
   (in process, behind the scenes, partially complete)
4. Set up fixthiswar.com domain for friendlier access
   (in process, behind the scenes)
5. Set up "pay what you think it's worth"/donation buttons
   (in process, adding to the bottom of "Browse the Book" pages)

Got suggestions?… Continue

We can use the Fix This War! community to collaborate and find better solutions to a terrible problem. Our leaders give us no good choices, so we need to create our own. We need to lead our "leaders" and find workable strategies for the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War ... and now the Russo-Georgian War. Right now, the most important factor these wars have in common is this: we don't understand them. Our leaders have not defined these wars. (The Russian leader will define… Continue