As I’ve said before, if you want to know what official Washington is thinking, read Wash Post columnist David Ignatius. In his latest and greatest, David fills us in on what the Pentagon is thinking. The good news is, the Pentagon wants to stay out of the Middle East: “This generation of military leaders has…
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Phony Evenhandedness, Case Nos. 377,421,904-6
Golly! That President Obama! When Republicans tell outrageous and disgusting lies, he just tells the truth! Why, he’s almost as bad as they are! That’s the gist of the bizarre rap of TV big-shot (five Emmys!) Jeff Greenfield in a recent piece for Politico Magazine, headed “Getting the Politics of Fear Right: Trump exploits our…
David Ignatius to Obama: You need to be bipartisan, Mr. President!
WPost columnist David Ignatius has the following words of “wisdom” for President Obama re the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran: “On the substance, I agree with Obama. The agreement will provide clear, verifiable limits on Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years. Those who think more sanctions can gain a…
David Ignatius, stumbling reluctantly over the truth
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…
David Ignatius: Yes, I’m an asshole! An asshole who wants to keep his job!
America’s allies are growing restless, David Ignatius warns. “Is President Obama an American version of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader whose well-intentioned reforms led to the demise of his country’s global power? That’s the anxiety a traveler hears these days from worried U.S. allies, and it’s mirrored in a provocative new article.” Which American allies are…
Does that mean we lied? Part II
The way David Ignatius tells it, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates will do anything to express his sorrow for the deaths of innocent Afghan civilians killed by U.S. troops. He’ll even stand in the hot sun, wearing a pinstriped suit! According to Ignatius, Gates also announced that “United States will adopt a new approach of…
David Ignatius, in search of a lead, yet fleeing the truth
“Listening to members of Congress, you might think the biggest problem at the Central Intelligence Agency is that one of its officers destroyed videotapes that showed waterboarding of suspected al-Qaeda operatives.” Really? Which ones have been saying such wickedness? And why isn’t destroying evidence of torture, you know, just a bit of a problem? Yes,…