Category: the Fiasco
Speaking of “liberal hawks,” the Bush administration’s idea of a Deep Thinker tries to combine the vain preening of liberal Iraq War dead-enders with very strange conservative strawm
One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies, i
This has been another edition etc.: The whole fracas of Petraeus, Crocker, MoveOn, etc. has had, to a good first approximation, no impact whatsoever on anything of any significance. Bush continues to
Seriously, how many times can they pull the football away from David Broder before he figures out the scam? (The answer, of course, is “an infinite number.”) However, from this day forward
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-
It’s a generalization, and therefore subject to exceptions and qualifications, but this seems basically right: If we discount the out-and-out hacks, my entirely unscientific impression that appa
I think Andrew J. Bacevich sums it up well: “The cult of Petraeus exists not because the general has figured out the war but because hiding behind the general allows the Bush administration to p
Although this isn’t quite the Atrios link he’s craving (to put it mildly), Yglesias has a good point about the frequent indisinguishability of the arguments of “hawks” and (at
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