NR’s Idea of a Foreign-Policy Debate
The Coming Foreign Policy Debate, 11:00-12:30
Moderator: Rich Lowry, National Review
Panelists:
Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Frederick Kagan, American Enterprise Institute
Looks like the establishment cons are really facing up to what went wrong in the Bush years. Glad to see they’re reaching out for new perspectives.
What, Dick Cheney was unavailable to debate David Addington on torture/wiretapping?
Maybe, but NR scuttlebutt has it he makes an unbilled cameo closer at the FedSoc reception two days later with a real tonic for the troops entitled “Yoo Makes Me Heal From Our National Whoopin’”.
I am reminded, as WFB might have said, in reading over the NRI events roster, exactly why I left Hillsdale, aka Folsom Prison, for NYU twenty-six years ago [nothing against Folsom per my convenient punjab, but you had to be there and then, thick among the GOP mafiosi, to grasp the, er, *white flight* some of us enacted in transferring out]
They misspelled Heather Mac Donald, without the Letterman-meets-Hutton gap between choppers Mac and Donald…classic Mickey Kaus quip: “I love Heather Mac Donald when she’s angry.”
Imagine, if you will, what it must be like to be on their post-election shakedown cruise, already in progress till Saturday – that Man Overboard be John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt, aka DSL…
DSL.
I suspect that before bombing either Syria or Iran, once the monochrome Politburo-gray session-roster sinks in, the swing voters present among the NROchiks [or Swing Boaters in the case of the none-to-the-Swift cruise] will themselves get good and bombed; “Wither” Conservatism, as it were, indeed – or as Michael Ledeen would say, Faster, please…
McCarthy and Kagan will renew the venerable “Duck season; Wabbit Season” debate.
When do we get to go on taki’s boat?