David Frum and I agree at last: The Democrats–the people, not the politicians– are against the Gaza slaughter. They weren’t crazy about Iraq either. Apres vous le deluge.
Earlier today I posted that amazing North Carolina retired Marine’s Gaza analysis in the Times. One thing it says to me is that there is a potential Red-state/Blue-state alliance over Middle East policy: limpwristed blue-state idealists like myself who are…
Adam Horowitz writes: The Rasmussen poll said that Democrats by 55 to 31 were opposed to Israel’s assault on Gaza last week, numbers that have surely grown. The following numbers on the Solidarity with Israel bill that passed the House…
Does anyone care to read this man’s prevarications? I don’t think I’m going to. Thankfully this sort of useless activity, explaining away the neocons and Iraq, will preoccupy the dangerous Perle for the rest of his life.
Michael Hirschorn has an interesting piece on the possibly-imminent death of the “doorstop” print edition of the New York Times in the Atlantic this month. He comes out at the end on the right side–hey it’s not the end of…
The JTA: President Bush stacked his final selection of appointees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council with senior Jewish members of his administration. Among 11 appointees announced Tuesday evening were Josh Bolten, Bush’s chief of staff; Elliott Abrams, a…
A little more debate. National Journal is having an experts colloquium on Should we maintain a special relationship with Israel. The discussion was marked till yesterday by an absence of Realists, let alone lefties, and imbalance, with 6 of the…
and must be talked to, Tom Ricks reports in his new Foreign Policy blog. This is an Iraq war lesson. Imagine trying to destroy the Sunni militias… And Obama can’t open his mouth.
Dan Drezner is the worst of the fresh-faces-for-a-fresh zeitgeist Foreign Policy bloggers. I believe he supported the Iraq war, and is an apologist for the Bush Administration. But he’s on the wagon when it comes to the good demon alcohol…