I've been ruminating for a while about this John Judis column on lefty reluctance to engage in Syria. Ali Gharib has a good response here, and Dan Trombly here; suffice to say that Judis mischaracterizes the anti-intervention coalition, and can't provide any detail of what...
“liberal hawks”
Why does anyone care what Michael O'Hanlon thinks about anything? One nice thing about being a hawk, especially a nominally "liberal" one, is that your errors in judgment can never.
For obvious reasons, this reminded me of this. From the more recent one, I especially treasure the line about how Libyans probably wish that John McCain was around to drop.
This has been another edition of what Publius said.
George Packer writes:If the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government’s callousness, that will be one more.
A commenter chez Yglesias links to this 2003 interview with Paul Berman. I think this is my favorite part:Even people who think that Bush is making a blunder with his.
Matt provides some useful quotes taking on Paul Berman's attempt to claim that he was contemporaneously against the Iraq War. Perhaps even more instructive is this one from another post in the Slate symposium. After conceding that mistakes were made by the leaders of the...
Roger Cohen complains that "Germany, Spain and Italy" are being insufficiently "flexible" about the use of military force. And it would probably be desirable for these countries to send more.
Michael Berube channels Rick Perlstein: Besides, as Rick Perlstein pointed out to me a few days ago, there’s something very, very troubling about the whole Beinart analogy between anti-Islamism and.