1904-2005. George Kennan advocated a sensible approach to the Soviet Union, one that recognized the dangers but refused to inflate them. He was one of our last links with the foreign policy generation of World War II and its immediate aftermath. He will be missed.
Month: March 2005
Yglesias, Justin Logan, and Tim Lee have been having a conversation about the utility of international institutions. More or less, Yglesias argues that John Bolton is a bad guy for.
Is there any other word that can explain this nonsense? The question of whether or not Mark McGwire used steroids in somehow of great national importance? Smoke. Mirrors.
We know that the security case for the Iraqi war is gone. Saddam had no weapons and no weapons programs to speak of, and Iraq's conventional capabilities were meagre. We know that the anti-terrorism case is gone, because despite our ability to question virtually all...
With Rob and Lindsay having spoken, I suppose I should put forth my best of the 90s list. Like Rob. I don't think there's any question that the 90s were far.
Eugene Volokh, while often one of the best conservative bloggers, has always teetered precariously over the shark tank of wingnuttery, and now he's dived right in. (Admittedly, Jim Henley accurately saw this.
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: The fact that there was extensive looting of conventional weapons after the American invasion of Iraq proves that people who claim that there were no WMDs in Iraq are logically inconsistent.
Trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear, Hitch is insisting once again that we've found WMD in Iraq. Well, maybe not WMD, but machinery, equipment, and buildings.
Via Crooked Timber, Juan Cole discusses the current state of Fallujah. Readers often write in for an update on Fallujah. I am sorry to say that there is no Fallujah to update..
Via a comment by praktike, I don't think this Jonah Goldberg column needs much in the way of further comment, although as part of the cat-blogging sector of the blogopshere we must register some dismay. What is it with wingnuts and cats anyway? (The latter story also casts...
Typical Bobo: There are no signs that anybody is budging or willing to budge. And so it's time for a provisional obit for Social Security reform - an exercise in cold.
Kos both reminds me why I love JetBlue and that I must rationali...er, justify the fact that I do not even consider flying another airline if I have the option,.