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 referring to the war in Afghanistan as "a war of Obama's...
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To follow up on Scott, it's fair to say that I find Jonathan Bernstein's arguments regarding Bush's lack of influence over Iraq war planning unconvincing: In fact, in the case.
"Mad" Matt Duss has exactly the kind of Nation article that I most enjoy; one that quotes me at length: Given Liz's status as a conservative scion, it's fitting that.
Matt Duss shoots, guts, dries, and renders into tasty beef jerky the Chalabi-supporting wing of the neoconservative movement:Even after the invasion, after it became clear that there were no WMD and no Saddam-Al Qaeda alliance, and that, despite his claims of a massive following, Chalabi...
David Frum compares the conventional and Team B views of Soviet military spending and arms control.The conventional view:The Soviets could increase their arms spending, therefore arms control was worthwhile.The Team.
Michael Ledeen has a curious way of approaching the social form "accusation":You're going to be accused of meddling anyway, since out there in the real world you are believed to.
Mahmound Ahmadinejad is a billion times worse than Hitler, unless he loses the election, in which case he was always irrelevant.... each major candidate seem to believe that he won by forty points. Such views are not, as they say, reconcilable. Could be trouble on...
Part 18 in our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower brings us to 1974, and Gerald Ford's unlikely ascension to the office of the Presidency. The.
Walt on the Foreign Policy Initiative:The new group's modus operandi is likely to be similar to the old Project for a New American Century: bombard Washington with press releases and.
When I say that Jamie Kirchik is too stupid to breathe, it shouldn't be read as a suggestion that he be smothered; rather, it should be understood as an expression of sheer wonderment that someone so stupid could remember to breathe on a minute-to-minute basis....I...
I have a piece at Guardian: Comment is Free on the International Security Advisory Board report on China. Long story short, it's Team B revisited.
What Sully said. This bears particular emphasis:The Palin nightmare also happened because a tiny faction of political professionals has far too much sway in the GOP and conservative circles. This.