Dan McCarthy, Richard B. Spencer, and Jim Antle — all of whom might be broadly perceived as paleocons-with-libertarian-sympathies — have started a foreign policy blog, Exit Strategies, and it’s a great read: I especially liked two posts by Spencer: ”Les Neocons,” and his riff on iraq and “Snakes on a Plane.”
Daniel Larison, one of my favorite bloggers, takes on William “You’re A Traitor” Hawkins, and skewers him:
“It is unfortunate that Mr. Hawkins has written this. It is unfortunate because it is an attack on his former colleagues, but even more because it is an embarrassing spectacle. Yes, Murray Rothbard opposed unjust wars and pernicious foreign policy, for which he was scurrilously attacked after death by Mr. Buckley. If anyone would like to take Buckley’s side in that disgraceful episode, he associates himself with very shabby behaviour unbecoming of a gentleman. People at Antiwar.com also oppose unjust wars and pernicious foreign policy, for which they are routinely scurrilously attacked. They all see interventionism as a principal source of the expansion of the state at home and the loss of liberty. I find it hard to believe that anyone at the gathering would say that patriotism has become a dirty word, except perhaps by way of saying that warmongers have helped make it seem so by misusing the word and conflating it with things that have nothing to do with patriotism.”
And of course I’m still blogging over at Taki’s Top Drawer: on Lawrence Dennis, and a most contentious debate on the war. See also Taki chickening out when he could’ve put his karate skills to good use …
We’ve written about the Raimondo-Hawkins incident here:
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=1167
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L/N looks like more talk-talk in an intellectual conservative vein, instead of talk-talk in an intellectual liberal vein. So far the talk has acheived absolutely nothing, and I’m beginning to suspect that the talkers hope it will get them off the hook when Iran is attacked and they can say “We told you not to do that!” Without appropriate action, the talk is just so much useless blather. (And, the fact that their names are apparently well known, you would think the founders of L/N would be in good position to make real action count!)