News-wise, this week sure is starting out with a bang — and, hey, Monday isn’t even over yet!
No, I don’t mean the Jackson verdict. It looks like there’s going to be breaking news on the Bolton nomination around 10:30 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned …
The minute I heard about the recent bombings in Iran, I immediately thought: Mujahideen-e-Khalq, the kooky Marxoid cult that some neoconservatives want to help them effect “regime change” in Tehran. And sure enough, it looks like my instincts were right on target. But, hey, wait-a-minute, weren’t they all supposed to be corraled in “Camp Ashraf,” their base where U.S. guards stand watch over them? Hmmmm…. who let the dogs out?
On the Huffington Post blog, Eugene Volokh, the “libertarian” lawyer who infamously made the case for torture, is all over poor old Paul Findley for citing an apparently nonexistent quote from Condi Rice admitting that we have an “Israel-centric” foreign policy. I jump into the fray to point out that apparently some people — including Larry Franklin, whose sealed indictment on 6 counts of espionage on behalf of Israel was made public today– think it isn’t Israel-centric enough.
God, but I’m having an indecent amount of fun over at the Huff-blog!
Congratulations to Laura Rozen and Jeet Heer, whose series of articles for The American Prospect got an airing on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. The idea was to debunk Rep. Curt Weldon’s wacko book retailing a whole new set of neocon-generated lies designed to get us into war with Iran. Naturally, Weldon denied everything: Laura catches him in more than a couple of lies here.
Sources of Neoconservative Thought: Leo Strauss, Leon Trotsky — and Francis Ford Coppola? Arthur Silber has the story….