Damn straight he is, alive and kicking at the Atlantic, with an excellent article, “Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter”, which I’ll discuss/amplify in the Afterwords, but for now what I want to talk about is some beautiful demolition work Gregg performed on racist/fascist television back in 2018, describing the unbridled power worship that was…
Tag: iran air flight 655
The four-star general with a two-star mind
Okay, that headline is more euphonious than accurate, not to say meaningful, so here’s the gist of what I’m trying to say: Politico has a story up by Eliana Johnson claiming that Donald Trump held off bombing Iran on the basis of comments on Fox News by retired four star Jack Keane, to wit: “Our…
Kenneth M. Pollack’s slights of hand
Damn the non-homographic homophones! Damn them to hell! They make fools of us all! Just last week I recounted my struggles with the “summery/summary” slough, and now, over at the National Review, poor Kenneth M. Pollack is having “slight” problems of his own, writing in his piece “Why Push Back On Iran?” “We can all…
Some Murderers Are More Equal Than Others
The recent attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, using a nerve gas developed by the Soviet Union, is ghastly and horrifying and deserving of the severest condemnation. But I am reminded of another murder attempt—a successful one, this time—that occurred in Washington, DC on September 21, 1976, of Orlando Letelier, a prominent Chilean…