Yesterday, the Washington Post asked David Kilcullen, an Australian army reservist and top adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus who has spent years studying insurgencies in Iraq, Indonesia and Afghanistan, among other countries, “What are the lessons of Iraq that…
A friend writes: Isn’t Yglesias supposedly one of bold new generation of young american jewish bloggers who speaks truth to power on Israel? This is pathetic: One doesn’t know the extent of these things, but both of the people speaking…
A friend writes: A quotation from Chas Freeman (Justin Raimondo today)–the voice the president decided he couldn’t afford to have on hand: “Both parties colluded in catastrophically misguided policies of militarism and jingoistic xenophobia. We succumbed to panic and unreasoning…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
The other day the Washington Post editorial page–which I am harping on because it has been on the pro-neocon track at least since declaring that the Iraq war was “essential to American security”– ran an editorial urging the Justice Department…
I’m going to harp on my belief that the Washington Post, which supported the Iraq war and showed editorial indifference to the Gaza slaughter, is playing a negative role in informing the American elite. Robert Parry, the former AP reporter…
Chas Freeman vs Chuck Schumer is Hutus vs. Tutsis. They’re from different tribes, in a power struggle for the American establishment. Schumer’s is winning. Freeman’s crowd, the bluebloods, have been pushed out. Schumer has tribal loyalties to the Jewish neoconservatives,…
Re Adam Horowitz’s post earlier today, Jack Ross writes: Daniel Pipes and Chuck Schumer were in the same class at Harvard, and no doubt because of said connection Schumer conspicuously stood up for Pipes when he was nominated to the…
In this fall 2007 column, Roger Cohen was somewhat pugilistic toward the American left, offering apologies for liberal Iraq-interventionists and even the neocons. And then? Gaza.