Reihan Salam provides of somewhat less than compelling defense of why he is still a neo-con and why America needs his point of view. He fully admits that Iraq was a total disaster. But it’s justified because maybe, just maybe, involving the United States in regime change in countries Reason , size that softness canadian […]
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Michael Kranish’s story of how part of the home school lobby brought down the UN Disability Treaty is just fantastic: Then a witness named Michael Farris stunned many in the hearing room as he
Meet the American Enterprise Institute’s hot new hire–Joe Lieberman! [SL]: Nobody could have seen this coming!
Why did the GOP go down Yamato-style, guns blazing on a suicide mission against impossible odds in the Hagel fight? Conor Friedersdorf’s suggests that part of the answer is information asymmetry, bred by the conservative echo chamber: But Americans who get their news from anti-Hagel conservatives discovered Tuesday that much of the analysis they’ve long […]
I have a new piece at Right Web on the Romney foreign policy team: A campaign team has two purposes. First, to supply rhetoric and policy that will help the candidate win; second, to provide the nucle
Jefferson Morley: The War of 1812 matters because it was America’s first war of choice. The United States did not have to declare war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812, to survive as a nation and in
Duss: As a recent CBS poll showed, the neoconservative agenda remains broadly unpopular among Americans, but as long as neocons continue to occupy prominent think tanks, editorial boards, and cable news channels, and without any comparably well-funded counterweight within the conservative movement, we’ll have to keep hearing from them, and have to keep reading articles about […]
A few outliers aside, Republicans have stumbling over themselves to critique Obama for the withdrawal from Iraq, despite that fact that this position polls very badly. Some thoughts: 1. As Jonathan Be
Jennifer Rubin didn’t have such a good weekend. As a general rule, it’s pretty easy not to use the murder of ninety-three Norwegians to shill for the defense industry. For example, inste
My latest at WPR expresses skepticism regarding the practical import of a realist/neocon divide in the GOP: However, it is probably too soon to expect the return of a “realist” foreign policy establishment in the GOP. As a result, the candidate that ultimately emerges victorious from the Republican primary will likely be broadly comfortable, if […]
Rozen, via Glenn Greenwald: Our colleague Ken Vogel reported yesterday that Sarah Palin’s SarahPAC has paid Kristol’s Weekly Standard colleague Michael Goldfarb and former McCain campaign
This seems optimistic: As you may have heard, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is in the news again, and not in a good way, with reports of a speech he made in Connecticut referri