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This is a good interview with Gore Vidal(via Bookforum). TAC readers will especially enjoy this part: He hands me a copy of the book Ain’t My America by the so-called “radical reactionary” Bill Kaufman [sic], who challenges, from a right-wing perspective, the expansionist policies of Bush and Cheney. “I am considered to be a radical [...]
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It’s been a long week for politics. Trying to gauge Hillary Clinton’s “long goodbye,” is one thing, but watching John McCain assimilate into the Republican Borg is probably an event most observers hadn’t expected so soon. It’s an organism that McCain had long repelled. But since maverick means “being independent in thought and action or [...]
It took six rounds of balloting, but former Georgia Republican Rep. Bob Barr beat Mary Ruwart, the choice of the Libertarian Party’s radical caucus, for the LP’s presidential nomination today. Wayne Allyn Root, another ex-Republican, took the vice presidential slot after a tight race with medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby. Robert Stacy McCain and David [...]
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On Memorial Day we must remember our honored dead but should also not forget the many living neoconservatives who have made the wars possible that have sent so many of our soldiers to their final resting places. I am particularly thinking of the first family of War for the Asking, the Kagans – Donald, Robert, Fred, [...]
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Is the way a McCain-Lieberman ticket sounds to me. And on the same subject, the Onion reports that Obama, Clinton, McCain Join Forces To Form Nightmare Ticket.
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Republican candidate-presumptive John McCain is interviewing possible vice presidents this week end. A number of “conservative” Republicans including Romney, Crist, and Jindal will be involved, but the media is generally not reporting that Senator Joe Lieberman is also one of the finalists. I predicted back in February that McCain would opt for his sometime Democrat soul [...]
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John Lukacs, historian and crank, has penned a strange review of Pat Buchanan’s most recent book. It is no surprise that Lukacs doesn’t like Buchanan’s book, since Buchanan has profaned Lukacs’ idol, Winston Churchill. The principal difference between the two men is that Buchanan sees Communism as having been a greater threat than Nazism, whereas [...]
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Might I suggest that if Frederick Kagan wants to grow the Army and Marines to 900,000 by 2012, than he had better strap on some boots and join the rest of the 1.7 million men and women who have already deployed in and out of the warzone while he’s enjoyed a comfy perch at the [...]
So said William Butler Yeats, and it seems that war hawks have begun to agree, at least in regards to the outstretched American forces. Thomas Donnelly and Frederick W. Kagan appear in the news today, writing in the Wall Street Journal on the size of the American military. Bush’s plans to expand the Army have [...]
“Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for…” I know something about islands. My parents still live in a place that launched a thousand postcards (and a million unforgivable muumuus.) Those of us who stay longer than a cruise-ship cycle learn that it’s not all Eden, [...]
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