The Washington Post has an attack on Congressman Jim Moran that is full of casual and dismissive invective, the suggestion that he’s an antisemite who is afraid of the bogeyman, and is a captive of the Arab lobby (when of…
The last refuge of pro-Iraq-war neolefties is the theory promoted by Charles Ferguson and George Packer in ‘No End in Sight’ that everything would have gone great in Iraq if we’d just done the invasion right, and, notably, if we’d…
Alissa Rubin of the Times had a fabulous piece of reporting from Baghdad yesterday that included the following: “The withdrawal of the occupation forces is a must because they have caused the destruction of Iraq, they committed massacres against the…
According to the JTA (my favorite wire service), the National Jewish Democratic Council has said that Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas are “irresponsible” and “downright dangerous.” The Council, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, made the accusations in response to…
The other day I went to see No End in Sight, the documentary on Iraq that has gotten all kinds of critical praise. You have to hand it to independent filmmaker Charles Ferguson. The movie gives you a better idea…
Interesting that an editor of the Jewish Week has gone after Eric Alterman for his comments re dual loyalty. So the issue is in the air. Add the Week’s interest to John Judis’s, Gabriel Schoenfeld’s, Alterman’s, and (by implication) Tony…
One of my many disappointments with the media is that in the wake of the attacks in England and Mike Chertoff’s gut-check, we have seen no Op-Eds by Robert A. Pape, the realist at the University of Chicago who knows…
At the warmongering American Enterprise Institute Monday, Frederick Kagan pushed for continuing the war in Iraq by saying that things looked lousy in the Civil War here in 1862 or so, but Lincoln stuck with it notwithstanding widespread grumbling over…
I like Scott’s comment from yesterday, that maybe the Iraq war will do to the current Establishment what Vietnam did to the last one, break it down. Certainly this disastrous war goes way beyond George Bush and even Dick Cheney….