Via Steve Clemons, there’s Douglas Bandow’s comprehensive review of John McCain’s bizarre foreign policy pronouncements. It’s a reminder of just how consistently McCain has been ill informed or wrong — wildly so in many cases — on the most significant foreign policy questions of the past decade. This is true not merely with respect to […]
Month: March 2008
Exactly right: Meanwhile, you need to put Iraq in strategic context. The goal wasn’t merely to topple Saddam, but to intimidate other “rogue” regimes by creating a credible threat to
Since ignoring the fact that John McCain hasn’t released his tax returns while complaining that Hillary Clinton hasn’t isn’t quite enough, ABC News “chief investigative reporte
An op-ed for an alternate universe in which people who were actually right about the Iraq War received a significant media platform, as opposed to giving space to those who regret having supported the war because it will make it less likely that we’ll fight the next crazy war (in the context of claiming that […]
Rarely have I seen a more pathetic second half of basketball. Drove me to drink, it did. Anyway, except for the poor bastard who picked USC to win it all, looks as if the field is still open. Did anyo
Doughy Pantload gobbled some cake today. He did so in a very serious, unprecedented way. Rather than try to summarize the life and work of a man who’s given the left blogosphere so much over the
Kevin Drum asks: “Two Democrats, two committed Christians. So what’s it gotten them?” Well, in the case of Clinton, the answer is that she’s become a popular Senator of a large state and a close runnerup to be candidate for President, but…had a mean blog post written about her by Barbara Ehrenreich. In the case […]
Matt writes: It’s striking how much of conservative thinking about national security these days centers around subjective factors — determination, emboldening, “claiming victory̶
Noah summarizes the disputes between Gates and the Air Force to this point.. Last fall, the Pentagon’s civilian chiefs shot down an Air Force move to take over almost all of the military’s
Praise to the wise ones, our robot masters.
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
Criticizing Amy Sullivan isn’t usually my beat, but really: For decades, the Democratic Party has ghettoized religion, outsourcing it to African-Americans within the party. Democrats who give hi