The death of Colin Powell at age 84 has brought forth lots of eulogies and a few accurate criticisms, like this one, posted at Forever Wars by Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump. Ackerman focuses almost exclusively on what one might call the “mysterious incident…
Tag: George Bush
“Farewell” to the American Empire? GOOD RIDDANCE!
“Decline is a choice!” bellowed the late Charles Krauthammer back in the day, livid (to say the least) that that pantywaist in the White House hadn’t yet bombed the hell out of whomever Charles felt needed such treatment. And his spiritual children, the Trump-battered nextgen neocons at the Dispatch and the Bulwark are continuing to…
Qassem Soleimani didn’t kill 600 American soldiers in Iraq; George Bush did
As “conservatives” rally to explain why murdering a high-ranking official of another country is a good thing, one of the most potent—or at least most frequently repeated—arguments is that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq. The Washington Post tells us of “Soleimani’s legacy: The gruesome,…
Glenn Reynolds now officially a cantankerous old fart
It seems like it was only yesterday that I was devoting a withering (so I hoped) footnote to some recent balderdash emitted by Glenn “Stay Off My Lawn, Negro” Reynolds, who’s now topped his previous balderdash by a very wide margin, a margin that, in fact, tends towards infinity. The gist of Glenn’s latest outburst…
Real reason why Jeb Bush is losing: George Bush
Over at Politico, Anna Palmer and Eli Stokols have a long piece quoting nearly two dozen anonymous Jebusite bigwigs and soreheads to the effect that Mike Murphy, the “sharp-witted, Twitter-obsessed veteran GOP ad man who runs Right to Rise” (the super PAC set up to make Bush III come to be), is responsible for flabby…
Richard Posner fools me again
I guess that should be Richard A. Posner, because that’s how Dick likes to bill himself on his book jackets. If you read this blog assiduously, you’re probably aware that no one gets my goat quite so often as the learned judge. I never liked his snooty, know-it-all attitude, but it was his little book,…
Jack Goldsmith, still trembling before the truth
I’ve cast a cold eye on Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under W, before and I’m going to do it again. In the current Vanity Fair article on that debacle known as the Bush Presidency, Jack has this to say about how George and Dick Cheney seemed, well,…
Parsin’ W—he’s not so innocent
When President Bush announced the “Surge,” he claimed that it would “hasten the day our troops begin returning home.” Notice that the President didn’t set a date for bringing the troops home. Nor did he say that the Surge would allow us to bring all our troops home. He only promised that the day when…
Broder gone wild!
David Broder, the MSM’s squarest square, totally bitch slaps poor Al From, long suffering head of the Democratic Leadership Council, who’s constantly getting his butt kicked by the people who hate David Broder! But it’s Broder himself wielding the stiletto this time: “Al From, the head of the Democratic Leadership Council and a longtime defender…