Well, I guess Barack Obama has made a liar out of Robert E. Lee. We’re very fond of war in this country now. Presidents love it, because it lets them do whatever they damn please and let posterity pay the bills. The press loves it, because it’s exciting. It’s fun watching shit get blown up,…
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The War Party, Still In Control
So we’re going to war, again! Why, it seems like only yesterday that Barack Obama was promising to end “a” war. Well, yes, he did, and it does seem like he’s ending the war in Iraq, pretty much (to my surprise), but that doesn’t mean he isn’t ready to start another one. The President’s actions…
Thoughts on the current discontents
What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the year 2150 or so. Take that, Caesar Augustus!1 But what about the home front? Well, I had hoped to comment on Obama’s State…
Five reviews, no balls
Foreign Policy gives us five reviews of Donald Rumfeld’s Known and Unknown. None of the five dares to tell the truth about Rumsfeld’s many crimes. Such cowardice! This is how establishments protect themselves. Yes, we learn that Rumsfeld was the “worst secretary of defense ever,” but do we learn about the lies he and the…
When Obama officials cash out—a sordid tale, at least 11.1111111111111111111111111111% of the time
The New Republic has a snappy slide show, “Obama Officials Cash Out,” a rogue’s gallery that leads with Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, now hanging with Citigroup, decidedly not my favorite bank. Orszag probably won’t spend all his time doling out million-dollar bribes to high-end Manhattan pre-schools in order…
Well, if Hillary Clinton jumped off a cliff, would you do that? And the same for the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus
The New York Times has a long, all too-informative article on leading Catholic windbag and Princeton University professor Robert P. George who explains that he can’t be blamed for supporting the invasion of Iraq because Hillary voted for it. He goes on to say that he doesn’t like to talk about sex because the Roman…
The Angst of Anne—why Anne Applebaum wants to ruin your summer
Yeah, it’s summertime, all right, and the living is easy, but Anne Applebaum wants to rain all over your parade. It’s August, after all, and you know what happened in August! World War I! Forget the sunblock, dude, and strap on a gas mask! In her latest, greatest effusion, billed as “Beach Worrying” at Slate,…
Christopher Hitchens, one for seven, but this one cleared the fences
It’s a little late in the game to ask what is the deal with Christopher Hitchens. About one in seven columns is about how he was right about Iraq, or at least that anyone who disagreed with him was wrong. Another seventh are about the joys of drinking on the job—the old “hot type” days…
Ross Dumbfuck does it again
A few weeks back I took a trivial slap at Ross Douthat for a lame squib he wrote at the expense of poor Adrian Grenier (yeah, that Adrian Grenier) who I suspect is not quite as untalented as Ross says he is. Well, today it’s a lot more serious, thanks to an abysmal post Ross…
Don’t say the Washington Post never granted you any gratuitous and unmerited favors, departing Bush Administration
The Washington Post has been a persistent and aggressive critic of the Bush Administration’s disgraceful violation of the basic laws not only of democracy but of humanity, but somehow it can’t, or at least doesn’t, resist throwing that vicious crew an occasional bone. The editorial page of today’s Post provides a forum for a thoroughly…