Over at LRC blog, Jeffrey Tucker is kind enough to round up some of the gems from the prez's Q & occasionally A session last night. I'll just go through a few with my knee-jerk ripostes in italics: *They're [Iraqis] not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I...
I was rather hard on William Tucker in today's Collateral Damage, with good reason, but I also pointed out a few good moments in his essay "Call It a Democracy and the Hell With It." One passage I didn't quote certainly merits kudos:The entire Vietnam War was fought...
Glenn Reynolds contemplates nuclear annihilation with a chuckle. There is no longer any excuse for any decent person, much less libertarian, to associate with this vile SOB. I realize that the appellations "decent" and "libertarian" don't in any way describe most of...
William F. Buckley sez we can't leave Iraq just yet because:1) The old concern that Shiites and Sunnis would fire up sectarian hostility to dismember the state is taking a back seat to the concern that they are forgetting their differences in order to fight jointly --...
Funny stuff from that notorious antimilitary rag the Marine Corps Times:An Islamic civil liberties group has called for a Pentagon investigation into an apparent gag photograph of a Marine in Iraq taken during the last year. In the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J....
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A recurring feature in which we keep an eye on the hysteria-inducing madmen of tomorrow, especially our favorite Central Asian megalomaniac.Turkmen Leader Attacks Tooth Fashion ANXIOUS to banish all signs of backwardness from his remote desert nation Turkmenistan's...
Last night, Bill O'Reilly called Sadr "the new Saddam," which, given what we now know about Saddam's threat to America, should make us wonder why we need to topple Sadr. But who's the real new Saddam? This Washington Times headline speaks volumes: "Clashes Raise...
Arthur Silber weighs in on the controversy around blogger Kos, who has booted Richard Clarke from the top of the blogosphere's sh*tlist. If you've never had the pleasure of reading such twenty-four hour two minute hates as Little Green Footballs, Silber's selection of...
And again makes it pay twice. Gosh, what happened in Fallujah was bad! Americans are divided on the war. The antiwar people are dumb--how can they be against both the war and the preceding sanctions?! There's no telling what the future will bring. Yay America! It's...
