The Hits Keep Coming

How sincere is Walid Jumblatt's much-hyped conversion to the Bush Doctrine? Well, according to a FrontPageMag article just two months back, Jumblatt told a Saudi daily:We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S....

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Jumblattapalooza

Arthur Chrenkoff says that he and his neocon buddies don't consider Walid Jumblatt an authority on anything. Well, Michael Young sure does, as he has now highlighted Jumblatt's testimony in two essays (here's the first) affirming the efficacy of the Bush Doctrine in...

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Jumblatt Denial

Arthur Chrenkoff semi-responds to my post on Walid Jumblatt. I say "semi" because he curiously excises the Jim Henley passage at the end that ties it all together:Simply start saying things useful to the Bush White House and you too can take on gravitas with Gannonite...

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Don’t Neocons Read MEMRI?

As a follow-up to Justin's great myth-busting post on new neocon pinup Walid "Oil & Jews" Jumblatt, here's a partial list of the great sages (besides Michael Young, who was Jumblatt when Jumblatt wasn't cool) who now consider him an authority:Instapundit (of course)...

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We’re Not Worthy

I know Reason magazine gets its fair share of abuse around here, but this gem from Tim Cavanaugh is my early frontrunner for comment of the year:I think it says more about how contemporary liberals view themselves than about our "debased political terminology" that...

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Picking on Israel

After this spittle-flecked screed (and it keeps going) from a commenter at Liberty & Power, resident AWC-basher Steven Horwitz adds the following Deep Thought:As someone who thinks ALL foreign aid should disappear, including, of course, aid to Israel, I still believe...

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War Dementia Strikes Again

R.J. Rummel calls for an end to free speech in America. Why? Cos' he's a freedomist, silly. Back in November, we ran this eminently unobjectionable piece in which Rummel wrote,The more power those who rule have, the less libertarian the government, the more likely the...

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Discouraging Metrics

As you may have noticed on the main page, our fund drive is pretty darn sluggish. We're less than halfway to where we should be by this point. Which must be good news. I mean, if Antiwar.com can't scrape up a few bucks each from a fraction of its daily readers, it...

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