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CIA destroyed tapes, Penpals with North Korea, Romney’s religion, Clinton’s strength, and Huckabee’s faith in family |
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Hoping to preserve its impeccable reputation in the foreign policy arena, the CIA has apparently been destroying tapes of harmful interrogations Al Qaeda operatives. At least two tapes were destroyed in 2005, reports the NY Times, which raises the question: If you’re just going to destroy the tapes, why make them in the first place?
“We can’t have a political and economic crisis in Pakistan and keep losing to India in cricket. Please, God, help us. In Pakistan, we suffer too much.” In a country where cricket ranks alongside religion, will success in cricket help Pakistan overcome its political and economic woes?
After sending a personal letter to Kim Jong-il, President Bush is on his way toward becoming pen pals with the North Korean leader.
Hillary Clinton’s desire to prove her strength might be detrimental to U.S. Foreign Policy, James Fallows over at The Atlantic argues.
Hoping to diffuse some of the tension surrounding his faith, Mitt Romney has promised that if elected president, “he would not be beholden to the authorities of his church”. For someone who doesn’t think America’s Muslim majority deserves a cabinet seat, it seems the Mormon candidate wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
According to Mike Huckabee, America shouldn’t allow gay marriage because “There has never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.” As Devilstower picks up, this argument makes it seem like Huckabee wants to preserve an ancient type of family–maybe one in which marriage and puberty go hand-in-hand, girls start reproducing at age 12 and people only live to their early thirties?
Is anyone still listening to President Bush? When he’s not lying outright, he seems to be blundering in other ways…
