Wash Post columnist David Ignatius is widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the Washington establishment. If it’s conventional wisdom you’re after, Dave is full of it. In a recent column, “NATO’s New Perils, Dave displays, rather despite himself, an awareness that past conventional wisdom is, shall we say, full of it as well. “The NATO…
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Sanctions? Fuck yeah, we got sanctions!
Just when you thought it was fitting and proper to actually feel, you know, sympathy with the Obama White House, which is actually trying to negotiate with the Iranians rather than, you know, crush the evil out of them, as both Republicans and Democrats demand, well, this comes along: The White House is cracking down,…
British military spending falls from $57.7 billion to $57.7 billion, warns Washington Post
Following up on the angst of Anne Applebaum, the Washington Post devotes ample front page ink to the devastating news that Great Britain’s defense budget has shrunk from $57.7 billion to $57.7 billion from 2004 to 3013, or from 2.4 to 2.3 percent of total gross national product. To the surprise of absolutely no one…
Anne Applebaum sez, “Great Britain ain’t so great!”
Remember when the right wing was constantly accusing the Obama Administration of “throwing our allies under the bus”? Well, now it seems our allies are doing that to us! Anne Applebaum is distressed to notice that the British aren’t all that interested in saving the world these days. Apparently, “The Iraq war turned many in…
Obama failed to predict future, experts say
Graeme Wood has an article in the Atlantic that’s getting lots of play, explaining that “we” have been getting those ISIS guys all wrong, that what they really want is a big battle in Dabiq, a place in Syria, to fought by the Muslim faithful against the armies of “Rome,” a battle that will ultimately…
No tears for Brian Williams
Did you hear about former NBC nightly news host Brian Williams? Well, if you haven’t, he’s out, and all the complaints about an outrageous and hypocritical media firestorm can’t conceal the fact that the petard on which poor Brian self-hoisted and self-destructed was a cream-puff nightly news item about a non-event starring Brian himself! Did…
Joe Must Go!
Joe must go! Joe must go! Joe must go! Yes! It’s time for us to take Joe out! I mean, the man is evil! Let’s not just take him out, let’s take him down, six feet down in the cold, cold ground! Well, Josef Stalin was evil, and if any man deserved hanging, he did….
Yes, American Sniper is very largely a meretricious piece of crap
Director Clint Eastwood, quoted by the Hollywood Reporter after a screening of his new film American Sniper, did not sound like a clone of William Kristol: “I was against going into the war in Iraq since I figured we would probably trip over ourselves in some way,” I had a big question when we went into…
Daniel Larison is confused
The mills of God grind exceeding slow but exceeding fine. Mine grind exceeding slow. A decade or two ago in blog years, the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison, writing in a post labeled “George Will and ‘Cuba Derangement Syndrome’,”1 proclaimed himself mystified by Georgie’s “strange conclusion” regarding a dispute between Ky. Sen. Rand Paul and Fl….
Charlie Hill, looking for work
Charles Hill, billed at Politico as “a diplomat in residence and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University,” is not a dude I’ve ever heard of before, but I’m guessing he thinks he deserves a better job, because he’s written shabby, underhanded political diatribe thoughtful piece for Politico Magazine titled “Why Political Islam Is Winning,”…