Andrew Sullivan is somewhat recanting his accusation of several days ago against the neocons as being Israel-centric by explaining all the good things that neocons do beside turn Arab societies into charnel houses. I sense a lot of emails. Sullivan’s…
Steve Clemons is for imposing a solution, because Israel and Palestine are incapable of doing it on their own. And he quotes Peter Berkowitz of the neoconservative Weekly Standard offering another reason Palestinians shouldn’t have a state: Indeed, the journalists,…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Last night on NBC news, Al Roker debuted a show he is doing about black kids growing up without fathers. The big theme of the show that will air on MSNBC tomorrow night is bluntly racial: “this unsettling crisis.” It…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: We all agree that Joe Biden was is in Munich for an international security conference. We all agree that he spoke about the new direction in US foreign policy. But that’s all USA and the rest…
One thing I have always enjoyed about winter-camping is that I get to hang out with the Other, in my case privileged gentiles. When I was a kid, people from that tribe ran American institutions and my family was highly…
In a day or so we’re going to publish a splendid piece by Mohammad of Vancouver disputing James Petras’s argument that Obama is going to attack Iran. Part of Mohammad’s critique is a long meditation on the character of the…
in the Jerusalem Post saying that “some Jews” are angered by Samantha Power’s appointment to the National Security Council. One of these angry Jews won’t let the JPost use his name, afraid he’ll lose access. I guess he’s not that…
Andrew Sullivan might have saved himself three years’ mental labor by reading Walt and Mearsheimer in March 2006. He writes: I took neoconservatism seriously for a long time, because it offered an interesting critique of what’s wrong with the Middle…