A few times in the last 3 years I have declared that young people are going to lead us; and each time I have been premature. I did it at Columbia University in an article for New York Magazine in…
Last night I went to a New York party and got drunk and said a few unmannerly things. My wife wasn’t there, who is often my governor in these situations, or who gives me the grim assessment afterward. This morning…
Take a little stock. Here’s an editorial from July 2006 in the New York Sun called “Bring Back the Neocons.” The editorial argues that they had the best ideas for the Middle East. Later that year the Bush doctrine was…
Ray Close, a former CIA analyst, wrote the following letter to a foreign-policy list maintained by a Princeton scholar yesterday. Close gave me permission to publish [emphases mine]: For a large number of sophisticated Israelis, particularly those who feel the…
The Times did this piece last week on the mysterious recision of Gen. Anthony Zinni’s presumptive appointment to be Ambassador to Iraq. No substantive theory is offered by the Times of why Zinni, a great man, was denied this opportunity….
Another ex-CIA guy. Philip Giraldi, writing at American Conservative blog, on a report that good Anthony Zinni was to be named Ambassador to Iraq, and shook Hillary’s hand on that, till the lobby reared its hydra heads: I have been…
Jeet Heer takes my post about Eric Breindel and AIDS a step further, seeing a pattern in the likelihood that neocon icon Allan Bloom died of AIDS. Heer: Breindel’s story is particularly poignant since he aligned himself closely with the…
Today Americans for Peace Now released an interview with former Mossad exec Yossi Alpher where Alpher showed great respect for the Iranian revolution, comparing it to the Russian revolution, and saying that neoconservatives failed to understand its permanency and support….
A friend writes that the neocons now despise Andrew Sullivan and offers this reason why: a great picture of a Palestinian schoolgirl inside her wrecked school from Sullivan’s blog in January. The girl’s covered. Horrors.