The cartoon that is Jonah Goldberg's reality gets even weirder. As Arthur Silber points out, Jonah's flight of fantasy doesn't even work as a joke, as it might if, say, Teddy Roosevelt were the subject, because caricatures are supposed to play on attributes the...
The left wing of the War Party starts snuggling up to the right. Nancy Pelosi, addressing the president: "Let's work together to find a new direction in Iraq." I'm guessing east.
The right wing of neoconservatism starts sucking up to the left.
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On October 10th, Camp Falcon, a US Army base outside of Baghdad, was attacked by Iraqis. A major fire broke out and munitions started going off - including a few fairly spectacular explosions. Video of the event was shown on CNN and has circulated around the internet....
Army recruiters are getting so desperate for cannon fodder in Iraq that they are blatantly lying to potential recruits. According to an ABC News undercover investigation, Army recruiters even told students that the war in Iraq was over in order to get them to...
Mace Price, over at Stress, has a question he'd like to pose to "defense" secretary Rumsfeld: “Tell me tough guy?—Are you gonna take these arrogant, predictable recriminations out of the likes of Prince Richard Perle and his AIPAC, PNAC, JINSA friends sitting...
Today, Andrew Sullivan quotes the following passage from The American Conservative: Faced on Sept. 11, 2001 with a great challenge, President Bush made little effort to understand who had attacked us and why—thus ignoring the prerequisite for crafting an effective...
"The Assad regime [of Syria] is a typical Arab set-up, unable to survive without the backing of an outside power." That's Amir "Yellow Star" Taheri in today's NY Post. (Via.)
Only in Iraq, of course. Jim Henley explains. For more on the theory of the unitary executive, see Jennifer Van Bergen.
