The only reason I want...................

.......................to live to be 100-years-old, is that the History major in me wants to see how all this mess in the Middle East turns out.

 Obama would say privately that the first task of an American president in the post-Bush international arena was “Don’t do stupid shit.”

If you have a spare half hour this weekend, you might want to peruse Jeffrey Goldberg's essay in The Atlantic, "The Obama Doctrine."