I was making lunch and only caught about ten minutes of Bill Kristol’s speech at the Young America’s Foundation yesterday. But this is a blog, and ten minutes is enough for a post. I was surprised by how backward-looking and…
Times columnist David Brooks’s spoke to the conservative Young America’s Foundation the other day on C-Span. Smart guy. He seemed to get a little teary over John McCain. It sounded more like a eulogy–that the foregone conclusion had taken place,…
Philip Giraldi of the American Conservative is disputing Ron Suskind’s new book over the source of the pre-war lie that Saddam and Al-Qaeda were linked. Suskind blames the CIA; Giraldi says actually it was Douglas Feith at the Pentagon serving…
The Jerusalem Post is giving Abe Foxman a blog platform to deny that neoconservatism has a Jewish connection, to deny that neocons played a role in the Iraq war, and so forth. Basically to jump all over Joe Klein on…
Bret Stephens is a Wall Street Journal columnist who declares the Iraq war won today: … we now have a government that does not threaten its neighbors, does not sponsor terrorism, and is unlikely to again seek WMD. We have…
One of the most interesting things about the neocons is that no matter what happens re Iran, the book of history has closed on them. They’ve been deemed overweening and foolish. The verdict’s in. The owl of Minerva has flown….
The neocons have failed to understand the real danger of WMD because they have focused on state actors, including “secondary nuisances” like Iraq and Syria, when the true threat in the “war on terror” comes from freelancers. So argues Steven…
I’ve been thinking of writing a biography of Douglas Feith as a companion to his book, War and Decision, but have been stymied because I can’t find a working title. If I could just get the right one, I feel…
David Zucker is a movie producer who once demonstrated against the Vietnam War. Lately he’s gone way right–the predictable way stations were 9/11, the Republican Jewish Committee, and Ahmadinejad–and making a movie, American Carol, that seeks to make fun of…