Everyone is talking about Glenn Greenwald’s fine piece on how the anthrax scare was used to justify the Iraq war back in 2002–that the alleged Saddam-anthrax connection was what tipped guys like Richard Cohen to support the disastrous invasion. Read…
Neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Frum once wrote a book called An End to Evil, where they said it was “victory or holocaust” in going after Saddam Hussein. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Perle is exploring an oil…
Tonight I was driving home from a friend’s in Dutchess County, near Bruce Kovner’s vast country estate, when a black cat ran across Route 82 right in front of me. I hit the brakes, missed the cat. Still, I wondered…
I think I’m missing the point. Joe Klein is on fire, as they say. Here he is letting it rip again on the neocons and apologizing for supporting the Iraq war. Here are Josh Marshall and Jed Lewison standing up…
Great scandal produces great characters. Lucianne Goldberg… Matt Drudge… Gordon Liddy… Ollie North… In spite of his best efforts to rehabilitate himself in print, Douglas Feith is emerging as the neocon fool, par excellence. In the interview I just blogged…
Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution was a big promoter of the Iraq War (Glenn Greenwald has machicolated him definitively). And today he was on NPR talking about ideology. Reporter Scott Horsley, noting that McCain calls himself an idealist realist,…
Al-Ahram weekly in Cairo has an unsettling piece from a writer in Nablus on the recent Israeli raids, which it characterizes as “Gestapo-like behaviour.” Note that these raids were not covered in the U.S. but are the talk of the…
My wife and have 2 dogs, no kids. Our female dog got her right rear leg amputated on Tuesday. She’s 9 years old. She’s been active for years. One reason I’m crazy about her is that I went into the…
On reflection I have to say that while I was cheering him on, Michael Scheuer went a little overboard yesterday in his indictment of the neocons on antiwar.com: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Norman Podhoretz, Victor Davis Hanson, the Rev. Franklin Graham,…