I was making lunch and only caught about ten minutes of Bill Kristol’s speech at the Young America’s Foundation yesterday. But this is a blog, and ten minutes is enough for a post. I was surprised by how backward-looking and…
Times columnist David Brooks’s spoke to the conservative Young America’s Foundation the other day on C-Span. Smart guy. He seemed to get a little teary over John McCain. It sounded more like a eulogy–that the foregone conclusion had taken place,…
Philip Giraldi of the American Conservative is disputing Ron Suskind’s new book over the source of the pre-war lie that Saddam and Al-Qaeda were linked. Suskind blames the CIA; Giraldi says actually it was Douglas Feith at the Pentagon serving…
One of my gurus is Nancy Horn, a therapist who lives in Central Pennsylvania and understands Israel/Palestine as well as anyone. She didn’t like what I said today about Bruce Ivins (where I basically convicted him ex posthumo of the…
The Jerusalem Post is giving Abe Foxman a blog platform to deny that neoconservatism has a Jewish connection, to deny that neocons played a role in the Iraq war, and so forth. Basically to jump all over Joe Klein on…
I’ve neglected to blog about two ideas I heard on TV that seemed important. 1. Chris Matthews, a history buff, has been praising Eisenhower. And not just praising Ike for his political marketing, as this Times Op-Ed column did. But…
Bret Stephens is a Wall Street Journal columnist who declares the Iraq war won today: … we now have a government that does not threaten its neighbors, does not sponsor terrorism, and is unlikely to again seek WMD. We have…
The old Israel lobby continues to delaminate. Yesterday Jeffrey Goldberg attacked Eric Cantor, the possible veep choice of McCain, for distorting a statement that Obama made. The attack is of a piece with Goldberg’s important article attacking the Israel lobby…
One of the most interesting things about the neocons is that no matter what happens re Iran, the book of history has closed on them. They’ve been deemed overweening and foolish. The verdict’s in. The owl of Minerva has flown….