DIGG THIS Even as the Bush presidency wears down, the Global War on Terror only expands. Perhaps the word should be “metastasizes.” Just this week, the U.S. military, using SOFA-less Iraq as its launching pad, sent four helicopters with U.S. special forces soldiers across the Syrian border in an operation in which a number of people were killed. (The Syrians claim the assault was on a farm and that “a father and his three children, the farm’s guard and his wife, and a fisherman” all died; the U.S. claims that its forces took out a key al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia operative.) … Continue reading The Next Dear Leader