To add on brief point to Ezra's follow-up to his merciless demonstration of how many ways liberal hawks erred, wasn't Pollack's original case based primarily on the alleged threat Saddam posed to the United States, rather than democratization? It seems to me that Packer's characterization...
the Fiasco
A classic example [via MY] of foreign-policy-writer-who-would-be-wholly-discredited-in-any-rational-universe Kenneth Pollack expressing optimism about Iraq by carefully evading the substantive issue:Do you find the electric power is on more continuously?We found there.
As a predictable outgrowth of the O'Pollahan "fierce war critics who have always supported the war still support the war" useful idiot-ed, the "even war critics see progress in Iraq".
Scott Thomas issues a defense of his TNR Diary. The fact that he's willing to open himself up to the inevitable wingnut smear jobs does give me more confidence in the veracity of his accounts....and the smears begin.
Rob says most of what needs to be said about Jonah Goldberg's inevitably failed attempt to turn the Iraq catastrophe into a policy problem for...liberals. I'd like to address this:.
Fred Hiatt really is a marvel. His latest seems to contain every idiotic possible argument for defending Bush's perpetual war while pretending not to: willful blindness about Bush's actual position,.
Winger icon Michael Yon sees an upside to the Isalmist quasi-state we're killing hundreds of thousands of people and spending immense amounts of money to install in Iraq for no obvious reason: the insistence that "Allah u Akbar" be inscribed on the Iraqi flag reminds...
This is 100% right. Whatever label you want to apply to the policy of "making sure that the parties of an extremely bloody civil war are even better armed and.
Who could have predicted it? Taking away resources that could have been used to actually go terrorists that posed a potential threat to American civilians in order to destroy a.
I have to admit that I think Henley is probably right here:I confess a suspicion that the Dem leadership is counting on not getting an up-and-down vote. There’s a decent chance that some of the Senators happy to vote for a cloture motion they know...
It's good to know, if thoroughly unsurprising, that when David Ignatius wanted us all to agree (i.e. with him) about how to respond to security threats, the consensus we're all.
To follow up on what Thoreau says here, it's remarkable that people like Ignatius fail to even consider the possibility that Americans won't just "pull together and take appropriate steps.