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The consistency of American foreign policy is a thing to marvel at. Sure, there have been various ideological and strategic consistencies from Truman to Obama, but even during potentially game-changing crises imperial policy remains steadfast. Thus the official line quietly insists: “Pay no mind to the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the Arab world [...]
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The need to finally blog about something other than Egypt moves me to acknowledge the gathering out of the TAC vault to acknowledge the Reagan centennial. Dan came closest to nailing it of anyone in this review for Reason, that he was an enormously complex figure whose complexity we would only come to properly appreciate [...]
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I made my premiere this week on RightWeb, with an article on the strange twists and turns of the neocon party line on Egypt I have amply covered throughout on this blog. The article already seems somewhat dated with all that has happened in just the last few days. (I’m in DC through next week, [...]
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It was inevitable that the neocons would resort to this line of argument sooner or later, and alas that day has come. Frank Gaffney writes: In the days since the “street” started erupting in Egypt, moreover, Team Obama has been ever more explicitly cozying up to the Muslim Brotherhood. For example, the President, Secretary of [...]
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Larison has once again let his hyper-realism get the best of him, in arguing that the military has just been playing a clever game and will get behind the exceedingly craven to America and Israel Omar Suleiman as Mubarak’s successor. The military may have some conflicting interests in the turmoil in Egypt, but one can [...]
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The Israeli uberhawk Caroline Glick writes a column representative of the widespread feeling among Israelis that America, and Obama in particular, has betrayed them by not standing by Mubarak. Particularly noteworthy is that Glick, in what appears to be a growing consensus among Israelis, blames the Bush democracy agenda in equal measure to Obama’s “anti-colonialist” [...]
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It is with considerable pathos that I found the following open letter of academics, led by Noam Chomsky, calling on Obama to come out unambiguously on the side of the Egyptian people against Mubarak. Pathos, because this is a case where the lefties, even as they sound suspiciously like the more exuberant neocons, have more [...]
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Since I triumphantly declared that at last, the neocon Hitler-Stalin pact moment had arrived, the neocons have rushed headlong into insisting that the global democratic revolution lives. Each example is just such a spectacle to behold in itself that they must be listed one by one: Max Boot: “We’re all neocons now.” One is left [...]
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Many readers no doubt saw my contribution to the TAC symposium on the State of the Union, which included this Daily Show dialogue on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that cannot be repeated often enough: Jon Stewart: Could something like this happen again? John Oliver: No Jon, this was a [...]
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The Forward has a symposium on the legacy of Joe Lieberman now that he’s leaving office, with a contribution by Josh Muravchik of AEI, lamenting the passing from the scene of the last “true Democrat”. There is probably no one more plainly unqualified to identify a true democrat, small d or large, than Josh Muravchik. [...]
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