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As a consequentialist I regard voting in an election not as a symbolic act that would demonstrate my ideological purity but as one that could actually make a difference. At the same time, based on the concept of rational ignorance I also recognize that I’m contstrained by my average level of intelligence and my available [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
Robert Kagan in his monthly [thank the editor for small favors] column in The Washington Post today slams all those pundits who disagree with his central thesis that the U.S. is “Still No. 1″ (the title of his op-ed) and subscribe to the notion that America is in decline.
In fact, none of the writers that [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Israeli political analyst Joseph Alpher speculates in the Washington Post today about the possible impact of the outcome of the American presidential election on the Israeli election early next year:
“The Israeli public wants a prime minister who gets along with the U.S. president,” he said. “If Obama wins, and goes ahead with his plan to [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
Having recently completed a short Obama endorsement (in TAC’s forthcoming issue, one voice among many) which argues that the best reason to vote for Obama is that McCain will start a war with Iran, I find this Jim Lobe post more than troubling. Apparently, soft neocons like Dennis Ross are well entrenched [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
All this talk about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists” gets one thinking — if it’s about spending time on a board full of local high-hats and do-gooders and attending a Hyde Park “coffee” in 1995 hosted by a guy who directed property bombings in protest of the Vietnam War 37 years ago, killing no [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Iraq, Politics, War
Another good reason to revise trade embargoes with Cuba.
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers.”
So Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Herbert Hoover in the Great Crash of ‘29.
Hoover did. And the nation liquidated him — and the Republicans.
In the Crash of 2008, 40 percent of stock value has vanished, almost $9 trillion. Some $5 trillion in real estate value has disappeared. A recession [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy
David Brooks’s latest column is the flipside to Sean Scallon’s recent article in TAC. Scallon points out that many of the voters who made up the Buchanan brigades in the 1990s have since been co-opted into the establishment Republican coalition. Brooks knows that his Weekly Standard friends need these populist right-wing voters in order to [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
Sarah Palin basically adhered to a straight Bush foreign policy, as Joe Biden noted, though there were a couple of exceptions. Her great love for Israel and her willingness to let Tel Aviv attack Iran as if there would be no consequences for the United States is a result of both her Israel-centric view of [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
I’ve been reading several commentaries drawing parallels between Bush’s old request from Congress to provide his first Alpha Male (“Rummy”) with an authority to attack Iraq and his new request that Congress allow his new Alpha Male (“Hank”) to spend US 700 billion — probably US 1 trillion — for bailing-out Wall Street.
The parallels between 9/11 and 9/15 (the day [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy