Taliban Leaders Captured in Afghanistan
After nine years, I finally feel like we are going after the extremists responsible for 9/11. I think there are a lot of people who still believe, mistakenly, that Saddam Hussein is linked to the attacks. While he certainly didn't shun away those who were responsible, The Iraq War is rightfully labeled as a war of choice—not of necessity. Maybe in the end we will look back and realize it was the right thing to do, even if it was based on false intelligence (we still haven't found any weapons of mass destruction). But I feel like we let our eye off the ball and are paying for it now with an economic crisis at home.
Google Buzz Backlash
Google got off on the wrong foot with their answer to Facebook: a social network linked to their Gmail web client called Google Buzz. They wanted to go a step beyond other networks by automatically adding people to your follow list that you already e-mail. It sounds great at first, except they didn’t consider that people joining were unknowingly opting in for their e-mail address book to be viewable by fellow Buzz users.
Evan Bayh To Leave Senate
What’s most telling about Bayh's decision is how our government is in a frozen lock. Bayh is widely believed to have been easily reelected for the Senate this fall (unlike in Massachusetts). But he chooses to not run because of the political environment and systemic gridlocks that prevents our country from being governable.
His OP-ED to The New York Times explains his decision and how we need to reform the Senate, namely how filibusters are abused to block needed legislation. You can find that here.
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