Wow, Marty Peretz really is a piece of work. First, you get the Peretz attempt to be witty ("It is true that for a few years in recent times I have not bought French wines. But I did drink the ones I had in my cellar."...
Yglesias on Peretz on France:French dovishness comes down to one war -- Iraq, part deux -- that France didn't want to fight, and that France was right not to want.
Bob Bergen of the CDFAI (Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute) is irritated:The left wing in Canada has been doing its level best to equate Canadian foreign and defence policyunder.
The interview isn't really playing to Stewart's strengths (he's invariably docile when faced with authority), but I'm fascinated that it's happening at all; the President of Pakistan (who took power in a military coup) is chatting with an American comedian about Pakistan's realpolitik calculus following 9/11,...
I have been preparing to write a post-mortem for the Reds, but it seems that, somehow, they're only three games back pending the outcome of tonight's St. Louis-San Diego game..
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked to a story at Strategy Page that, if I may summarize, said that things are going great in Iraq and our troops are "mystified" that the.
Philip Vera Cruz.
Heh. Indeed.My favorite, I think, is this one. Yeah, those who claimed there would be a "quagmire" in which Iraq descended into civil war while huge numbers of troops remained.
"Terrorism policy, terrorism schmolicy--who does his socks?"Michael Lewis' much-discussed book Moneyball has, I think, often been misunderstood. It's most often discussed as being about statistical analysis, or disdaining speed for.
Robert Kagan:I would worry about an American foreign policy driven only by fear of how our actions might inspire anger, radicalism and violence in others. As in the past, that should be only one calculation in our judgment of what does and does not make us,...
David Corn euthanizes Christopher Hitchens. For more than two decades, I have seen Hitchens weave facts and assertions into stylistically brilliant copy as he attempts to intuit great truths. But.
Shorter Dan Riehl: This picture of the professor and his wife proves that he must have been--just like several other people--lying about the racism of a guy who admired the.