This not talking shit is hard! Yesterday, I couldn’t/wouldn’t keep silent about some year-old bullshit from David Ignatius. Well, today it’s the National Review’s Rich Lowry, opining about General Trump’s plans to reignite the war in Afghanistan: “At the end of the day, this is Trump concluding that he doesn’t want to lose a war…
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William Kristol no longer my least favorite neoconservative. For a while, anyway.
For a long time, Bill Kristol, self-anointed “boss” of the Weekly Standard (for so his minions refer to him), has been my least favorite neocon. Billie Boy bears more responsibility than any other non-government official for the trillion-dollar tragedy known as “Operation Enduring Freedom”,1 better described as “Operation Enduring Disaster”, an unforced error that cost…
Yo, New York Times! Torture is not a “mistake”. It’s a crime and a sin against the human spirit!
The New York Times—along with many others—took righteous umbrage when President Trump, asked why he insisted on cozying up to a “killer” like Vladimir Putin, responded by saying “What, you think our country’s so innocent?” The Times earnestly, though, one must say, rather innocently, acknowledged our own lack of innocence: “There’s no doubt that the…
War with Iran? You bet! It’s easy, and it’s fun!
A kinder, gentler Trump Administration? I think you meant “fascist-hysterical”. Thanks to the appointments of former Lieutenant Gen. Mike “Fear of Muslims is rational” Flynn as national security advisor and Rep. Mike “Waterboarding is cool” Pompeo as head of the CIA, we are just about guaranteed a repeat of the war on Iraq—constant accusations of…
U.S. and Russia totally not alike, New York Times says
The New York Times has an editorial, Vladimir Putin’s Outlaw State, denouncing Mr. Putin for, among other things, lying about the fate of the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine in July 2014 and for continuing to support Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in that nation’s ongoing civil war. With regard to the downing of the…
The Moral of Omar Mateen
The moral of Omar Mateen is that there will be no early end to the disastrous “War on Terror”, which is painfully damaging our culture and causing us to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on a massive and useless military. These are the fruits of “hegemonisn” or “exceptionalism”, promoted so assiduously ever since the…
William Kristol, unhappily swallowing, though not willing to digest, a very bitter pill
William Kristol, a man I love to hate—or at least ridicule—has a plaintive post up at his rag, the Weekly Standard, labeled “No Outrage”, in which the enraged Mr. Kristol gives vent to his bewilderment that no Republican—not Jeb Bush, not George Bush, not Dick Cheney—has been willing to fault Donald Trump for asserting that…
Iraq now must be seen as the Republicans’ Vietnam, Part II
I remarked earlier on the fact that both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were gaining traction by rejecting the “muscular” foreign policy that has become de rigueur for Republicans since the Age of Ronnie. Well, now, the Donald has gone completely apeshit, saying that Bush’s incompetence caused 9/11 and that the Iraq war was not…
Fred Kaplan, still not getting it—UPDATED
Several dog lifetimes ago, Bob Newhart was on the Tonight show, and he told Johnnie Carson “You know, Johnnie, truth is stranger than fiction. And even if it isn’t we’re going to pretend that it is, because if you buy the frame, you buy the bit.” The accuracy of Bob’s words of wisdom were perfectly…
Iraq now must be seen as the Republicans’ Vietnam
Well, it was a long time coming, but now it’s here. Heresy-speakers Donald Trump and Ted Cruz walked away with the most recent Republican debate. Both Trump and Cruz have repeatedly and explicitly rejected the regime change meme that has been the foundation stone of Republican foreign policy since 9/11. And will no one notice…