I’m definitely not a fan of Gen. David Petreaus, who arguably should be a convicted felon rather than a self-confessed misdemeanorist, but he definitely merits a thumbs up from all thirteen of us in the “Let’s stay out of the damn Middle East” crowd, when he said publicly that sending U.S. troops to clean up…
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General Petraeus, contemplating a career move: Wars are out, assassinations are in!
Establishment dick National icon Bob Woodward reports on a taped conversation that Fox News contributor Kathleen McFarland had with Gen. David Petraeus back when El Davo was still running things in Afghanistan, a tape that, mysteriously, did not surface until after General Dave resigned in disgrace from his position as head of the CIA. Kathleen…
How about that Charlie Sheen? I hear he gets more tail than General Petraeus!
Glenn Greenwald devotes perhaps too many column inches to the otherwise valid point that usually when a public figure gets caught with his pants down he’s the recipient of delighted, scurrilous ridicule, but that when it’s a four-star general named Petraeus, the rules are different. So, Glenn, I’m helping. More seriously, Petraeus has one major…
Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism: A major mea culpa just a few culpas shy of a load
Max Boot has written another “what happened to conservatism?” book, similar but superior to Charles How the Right Lost its Mind Sykes and Rick Everything Trump Touches Dies Wilson, because Boot, unlike both Sykes and Wilson, is willing to re-examine the historical record and discover, among other things, that, yes, the young William F. Buckley…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Calling Justice Scalia
I don’t know if Nino can protect me, but I’m putting through a call on, yes, my Verizon cell. Obama only wants to protect me, of course, regardless of what that awful Glenn Greenwald has to say. Or that awful New York Times. One can hope that reaction to this latest outrage will be the first step…
Tom Ricks, Foreign Policy Magazine dude, probably not happy with FP random link generator
Thomas E. Ricks, a guy whom I don’t think I know, has a blog on “Foreign Policy” magazine. I was reading another,better, article on FP, and at the bottom was a list of additional articles, including one with the snappy title “Paula Broadwell smokes J. Stewart in PT.” Well, I thought it said “Paula Broadwell…
Right-wing press discovers that Benghazi is a CIA fuck-up, not a Susan Rice fuck-up
Let me distribute a kudo or two to Siobham Gorman and Adam Entous, reporters for my least favorite publication, the Wall Street Journal, for bothering to do some actual reporting regarding Susan Rice’s infamous talking points on the assassination of four Americans in Benghazi. Since their story is behind the Journal’s pay wall, and since…
Day after Thanksgiving Day reading—Paula Broadwell’s All In—the Critics Rave!
An invaluable link from Justin Logan at the American Conservative brings the blurbs for Paula “Keep your hands off my man” Broadwell’s tome on the glories of General Petraeus, whose genius brought us our glorious victories in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not! “A valuable perspective on how Gen. Petraeus—the most successful U.S. general of his generation—approached…
The Washington Post, searching for purpose
Why are we in Iraq? Good question! Damned good question! Originally, it was stop Saddam from attacking us with “weapons of mass destruction,” nukes in particular, or at least that dreadful yellow cake. There was no chance that Saddam would attack us, of course—he wasn’t that dumb—but the mere fact that he had those WMD…