Melvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) The 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has brought forward an outpouring of analysis and commemoration of one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history. A lot of the op-ed commentary (as opposed to the often profoundly sensitive and sharply observed reporting) has been repetitive, self-justifying and predictable (some of it virtually absurdist self-parody).

Correct in every word! Israel is a catastrophe for Palestinians and humankind! Playing along with them, shipping express weapons deliveries like US and Germany ( ten fold after Oct. 7 !), sticking to complicit language, even making it illegal to protest as a single person in the streets- Germany again- are the western powers, the 'good people', the only ones who could stop the massacre! Three days ago in Berlin, an older lady, jewish, German/Israeli, was arrested by police as she stood alone in the street, holding her sign: "

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In 2007, during the height of the wine blogging craze when fools, friends, and fanatics of wine rushed to make their bid to become the next big voice in wine, Jeff Siegel launched a blog dedicated to “wine that most of us drink – cheap wine.” THE WINE CURMUDGEON was born. In February 2024 The Wine Curmudgeon will come to an end as Jeff stops publishing—after more than 4,700 posts and articles.

If you saw yesterday’s post on the poem, “Gratitude,” you know that my husband is not well at the moment. We will have a low-key thanksgiving at our house tomorrow, probably eating our dinner on Friday, and we may spend a quiet day watching a couple of great films. For stories of gratitude, you can’t beat “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness,” a must-watch film we have recommended before. Another is today’s suggestion, “The Long Gray Line,” which was our first Film of the Week at Word & Song, when we had only a few subscribers.