August 2007
17 posts
Forbidden Thoughts About You-Know-Who →
A reader writes:
Your “Quote for the Day” from Roger Cohen caused me to do a double take. I am for Obama at the moment, but this quote made me think that one of the great advantages with Clinton is that the whole world LOVES Bill Clinton. Restoration of the House of Clinton would be a signal to the world that the Americans have finally come to their senses. Obama will have a...
The Weimar President →
His speech yesterday actually managed to shock. You might think that, in wartime, a president would acknowledge what no one denies is a terribly grim decision in front of us - whether to pursue a clearly unwinnable war in order to govern a clearly ungovernable country - or withdraw and redeploy in ways that will doubtless lead to even more bloodshed. But no. There is no gray here; no awful...
lonelydimple: Does God create economic recessions? (via Twitter / lonelydimple)
“If the position of president was a street, someone would have to hold...”
– Do you need to know the name of Pakistan’s leader to be a good president? - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
“Rudy Giuliani’s essay in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, laying out...”
– Rudy Giuliani’s loopy foreign-policy statement. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
1988 Paris Roubaix →
Christianism Watch →
Junk science and psychology in a children’s book.
"Freedom Is About Authority" →
An insight into Giuliani’s mindset.
Rudy On The World →
It’s a bad, bad place and we have to keep attacking it until they like us. Or something like that. Actually, the Foreign Affairs piece seemed mainly boilerplate to me. The conflation of all our many enemies in the Middle East into one homogeneous whole called Islamist terror strikes me as unintelligent and not very helpful in advancing our interests in the region. Worse: If the choice is...
Obama's JFK Strategy →
He will not be Dukakized. And his emphasis in his major foreign policy speech today homes in on a key Bush-Cheney failing: al Qaeda in Pakistan. This is something a Republican should be comfortable saying:
“I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are...