It’s hard to figure out how to react to this Michael O’Hanlon column on health care. The first thought that struck me was “What the hell is Michael O’Hanlon doing talking about health care?”, but on further consideration that’s not quite right. My professional training is in international relations, but that hardly stops me from […]
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Matt points us to this remarkable panel at a think tank often described as “liberal.” Not only does it seem to define Joe Biden as the leftmost acceptable opinion on the Iraq catastrophe,
I really don’t understand why Matt won’t take the Pentagon’s secret evidence at face value; would they really lie to use about such matters? In related news, on a superficial, fuzzy-
I’ll have a couple of longer comments on the “foreign policy community” scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald: During the latest contretemps, Greenwald wrote: The Number One Rule of the bi-partisan Foreign Policy Community is that America has the right to invade and attack other […]
This post by Greg Djerejian on the now legendary O’Hanlon/Pollack op-ed is really indispensable; Greg takes them to task on their lack of hard evidence, reliance on impression, and apparent beli
The Times: The death of a marine in western Iraq brought the American military death toll to 74 so far in July, on course to be the lowest monthly figure this year. The reduction follows a record 331
I think Matt retreats too quickly from Chait and Douthat here…. Speculation about motives can be problematic, first because, in the absence of any written or spoken evidence, it’s always going to be speculation. Second, it can assume that your target is a liar, which can be comforting but isn’t always accurate, and in any […]
Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack’s New York Times op-ed is a litany of utter dishonesty and misrepresentation; like Matt, I’m wondering whether any of the Democratic candidates w