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That, anyway, is what our friends on the Commentary blog would have us believe about Obama’s speech at the UN today. According to this, this, and this, Obama effectively declared that we no longer purport to lead a global democratic revolution and that our foreign policy shall be that most Hitlerian axiom “peace, commerce, and [...]
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The New York Times ran a shockingly opaque obituary for Irving Kristol today – shocking, that is, because it does not make a single mention of foreign policy whatsoever. This is hardly a new conceit – as I’ve commented elsewhere, so much of the neocons’ self-congratulatory historiography makes it seem as though their story is [...]
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On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense – scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes – you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” [...]
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Much fuss and bother over here at the news that the Libyan Police are now being trained by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. But with Sinn Féin on the Policing Board, why complain about the PSNI training the Police in Libya? Similarly with some business about the Special Forces a few days ago. If [...]
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Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, died today. This is a poignant moment I have been anticipating for some time. Uniquely in all of history, Kristol was present for virtually the entire history of this revolutionary-totalitarian movement, easily equal to if not greater than its 20th century rivals, from its birth in the Trotskyist den [...]
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This evening begins Rosh Hashana and the High Holiday season – as I often kid my Catholic friends, we do it right by starting with Easter and ending with Mardi Gras. Anyway, I mention this in the public domain because I must say that two events of the last few days – Obama’s scrapping of [...]
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So, probably no “defensive” missiles in Poland or the Czech Republic, after all. Very close to Iran (of which, another time) as those countries obviously are, such location would in no sense have been an expression of hostility towards Russia. Would it? Russia understandably responded in kind and prepared to move her own missiles to [...]
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Though every talk radio blowhard is pretending to be for limited government now that a Democrat occupies the White House, I have maintained – not without criticism – that there remains a marked difference between Glenn Beck and most other national conservative hosts. For all his melodrama, Beck does two things which distinguish him from [...]
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The worst thing that you can all anyone in the British Parliament is a liar. No, please don’t laugh. It is the absolute taboo. There used to be a perfectly good reason for this. The worst thing that a Member could do was lie to the House. But today, it is clear that Gordon Brown [...]
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The current liberal “hysteria about a hysteria”, as Peter Viereck ever-so-aptly described the liberal and establishment reaction to McCarthyism, is proceeding full blast. Rachel Maddow, who some time last spring abruptly morphed from a pleasant, principled, and engaging liberal into a hack with the best of them is now adding to the lamentable heap of [...]
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