Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may be the most destructive politician in the United States. Combining the worst ideas of the right, the left, and the religious, he essentially seeks to punitively tax the world in order to bomb it for the sake of Israel. Despite...
Space: The Final Caliphate
You lazy, gravity-worshiping hippies may be content to sit around stoned while the Mooninites convert to Islam and threaten the democratic peoples of interstellar space, but Charles Krauthammer will never retreat! After countless millennia of gazing and dreaming, we...
Don’t F*ck Me Up With Peace and Love?
Maybe this post by George Hawley, "Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem," wasn't directed at Antiwar.com, but I'll address some excerpts from it anyway. In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old...
There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross
Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots...
I Love the Smell of Vindication in the Morning
Lord knows, I tried to warn you: Andrew Sullivan is no peacenik. In the last 24 hours of his hysterical Iran!revolution!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! typeathon, Sullivan has relapsed and rediscovered all his old drinking buddies from the...
Abrams to Parachute to Council on Foreign Relations
I guess this is breaking news on which I hope to have more to write later (I have a deadline on reporting Obama’s greenhouse-related announcements today), but I just confirmed that Elliott Abrams, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East...
Cost of War #31415
The talent pool of the military officers is shrinking : The army is losing its best and brightest. West Point, the alma mater of American generals going back to Ulysses S. Grant, has seen a relentless rise in the number of officers who leave at the earliest...