In fairness to Thomas Joscelyn, he doesn't actually suggest that the US should attack Pakistan. Rather, he asks cowardly rhetorical questions like "Pakistani terror networks were behind the 7/7 bombings and the London airline plot. What will we do about it?" Also it should be noted...
Joe Lieberman's favorite op-ed page, approvingly quoted by principled, non-partisan libertarian Glenn Reynolds: Let's emphasize that again: The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
"I regard it as a salutary doctrine that cities, states and the Federal Government must exercise their powers so as not to discriminate between their inhabitants except upon some reasonable differentiation fairly related to the object of regulation. This equality is not merely abstract justice. The...
You listen. Two crucial points: first, that randomly invading countries in the vain hope that a pro-American liberal democracy will emerge from the ashes is an exceptionally ineffective strategy for.
At Slate's Fraywatch, Adam Christian summarizes a number of devastating critiques of Weisberg's "The Hippies Are Out to Get Us" piece from yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the critiques are cogent, well thought-out,.
Needless to say, incoherent demagoguery is not just limited to blogospheric hacks:Senator Joseph I. Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain today to attack his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, saying that Mr. Lamont’s goals for ending the war in Iraq would constitute a “victory” for...
David Weigel gets it exactly right with respect to Bobo's fantasies about a centrist third party built around two politicians who don't have anything resembling centrist views on the most.
Patterico uses the thwarted terror attacks in London as a basis for rejecting the claim made by various visions in his head that "This whole war on terror thing is.
Drum writes:And yet, much as I'm reluctant to agree with him, Weisberg has a point: aside from kvetching about Bush's policies, the liberal blogosphere has chosen to almost unanimously sit out any substantive discussion of the fight against radical jihadism and what to do about it....
Another antidote to Weisbergian invocations of dirty, dirty hippies and objectively-pro-Islamofascists who were right about the war before it became fashionable to be. (Needless to say, TNR has hauled George.
The General makes a modest proposal to Marty Peretz.