Conservative “analysts” are worried, as well they should be, that the British lion is no longer willing to play up, and play the game. A week before the election, the Washington Post could already read the handwriting on the wall: “the overarching result is already clear: A stalwart U.S. ally is growing weaker, more inwardly…
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From the politeness of experts, Lord, deliver us
Rosa Brooks is a senior fellow at New America and a law professor at Georgetown University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy. She is also the author of a book review in the April 16 Washington Post of Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger’s…
The apocalyptic messianism of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent exercise in arrant knavery has received a gratifying amount of pushback, thanks to Fareed Zakaria, Roger Cohen, and Daniel Larison, among others. As Zakaria emphasizes, the current imbroglio is the result of the Bush Administration’s decision, back in 2005, to torpedo an earlier agreement that would have limited the Iranian…
Ukraine Cease-Fire Announced; John McCain Cries
Sure it’s tentative—after the negotiations concluded, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had a “glimmer of hope” that everything would work out as intended—but the announcement of both a cease-fire and a plan for making that cease-fire permanent must still be a heart-breaker for John McCain and his legions. The Great American War Machine was all dressed up for…
The story was big! It was bigger than Jill Kelley’s boobs!
The thirteen-year-old boy in me* thanks the Washington Post for thinking up another reason to run a picture of Jill Kelley’s mighty bust, shown above, but the news value the Post obtained by rummaging through Jill’s emails to the hapless (or stupid) Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, discussed in the accompanying article, is hard for…
Militant Wilsonian What the Fuck?
Okay, that was a little rude. The subject of my latest outburst is a posting in The National Interest (the “Buzz” column, to be precise) by Zachery Keck, providing a synopsis of a recent symposium held by the Center for the National Interest. Among the speakers was Robert Kaplan, a Senior Fellow at the Center…
Henry Kissinger’s World Order—the silk stocking full of shit at 90
Henry’s actually 91 rather than 90, but I doubt if he’ll miss the extra birthday. And, in any event, I always choose euphony over accuracy when given the choice. Since we’re talking accuracy, Napoleon was in fact talking about, and to, Talleyrand when he delivered the memorable insult given above, while Henry’s fave rave was…
“Science” Marches “On”
A couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post served up, um, a “Whopper” of an article titled “How a national food policy could save millions of American lives,” an article so big that it required four authors, to wit: Mark Bittman, an opinion columnist and food writer for the New York Times; Michael Pollan, who…
Ow! Ow! Ow!
Once, back in the day, well, I was unemployed a lot. I tried to make a living as a free-lance writer, and while I can’t say that I am the worst free-lance writer who ever lived, I can say that I am the worst free-lance writer who is still alive, because Brad and Harry both…
Hillary Clinton, Warrior Princess
By now, you may have read that Hillary Clinton’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg was not quite the unadulterated love-fest that Goldberg described in his intro to the rap session. It was only 99 percent unadulterated. At the Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky wants us to believe that Hillary isn’t really a neocon. She’s just a “muscular…