Some day the left will have to answer for the fact that it harbored the neocons for years after the Iraq war proved to be a disaster. I believe this is in some measure a Jewish problem. Even leftleaning Jews…
One of the pleasures of watching Scott McClellan is his sheer ordinariness. In the era of West Wing, the meritocracy, and the “overclass” (my new favorite expression, thank you Samuel Freedman), McClellan is an ordinary Joe. He’s pudgy and not…
Scott McClellan is a good man, is all I have to say. He’s a whistleblower of a sort, he’s put country ahead of party and chain-of-command. He even describes how Bush was converted to the neocon delusion, that peace in…
Tom Friedman has a good piece about the peace process and Israel today, or a halfway digestible one anyway. It is influenced by the goodnatured Aaron David Miller. But Friedman persists in offering the lone-gunman theory of Iraq: The rise…
Yesterday I saw the neoconservative Robert Kagan on Charlie Rose. It was an astonishing performance, as it suggested the psychic torment that those who pushed the Iraq war are evidently now undergoing and suppressing at the same time. Kagan’s message…
Tonight I watched one of Keith Olbermann’s trademark rants against George Bush. It went on for 15 minutes of vituperative outrage, generally surrounding Bush’s politico interview, and his decision to give up golf while the Iraq War was going on……
A week back I drafted a post saying that MSNBC should take Chris Matthews off air unless he says he’s not running for Senate in ’08 then never posted it because Matthews is such a political genius that I almost…
I just watched the great Lincoln Chafee, formerly a Rhode Island senator, now the author of Against the Tide, on C-Span talking about the war and politics at the Watson Institute last month. He made a few great points. The…
Last night Chris Matthews said he was shocked by a suggestion McCain made in a speech that the Iraq war was waged for oil. Matthews commented, So this means it wasn’t about spreading democracy or defending Israel! Let’s hear this…