The prospect of a McCain presidency is too awful even for Ken "Cakewalk in Iraq" Adelman to contemplate:Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment.When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis...
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Kvetch, in this thread:Sometimes you have to break a couple hundred thousand eggs to make a delicious freedom frittata.Hogan:And sometimes after the eggs are broken, you realized you have no.
It’s difficult to exaggerate the degree to which Stephen Walt demolishes Josh Muravchik in their realism vs. neoconservatism exchange in the September National Interest. The prompt concerns which, of realism.
RFS Pyotr Velikiy and his (my understanding is that Russians use the masculine in reference to naval vessels, but if anyone has clarification, please don't hesitate) entourage set sail for Venezuela yesterday. Let's hope he doesn't break down along the way, as he did in...
Yglesias:Meanwhile, if we launch a war with Russia — which would seem to be the point of busting out the analogy — then how are we going to find the.
Stephen Hayes is embarrassed and ashamed. No, not for that. Or that. No, not for that either. No, not really for any of the reasons that Stephen Hayes ought to.
Yglesias:But foreign policy questions are McCain's passion, he's chosen to put them at the center of his campaign, and there's really nothing at all Burkean about McCain's take on them. The "our country is democratic, democracy is awesome, therefore we should try to conquer the...
The Parag Khanna excerpt continues to produce some interesting discussion. Yglesias:In 1945-46 the U.S. economy completely dominated the world, contributing some absurdly high share of total output. Every other significant.
Silly Matt; if Musharraf really is like the Shah, won't it just give us the opportunity to demonstrate that, were it not for Jimmy Carter, a few well placed bombs.
Ed Kilgore makes an excellent point: If supporting the "culture of life" in one case in Florida requires an emergency congressional session, then perhaps when John Bolton's nomination for ambassador to the U.N. comes up, Senators should ask him about his manifest contempt for human...