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Among other attacks, Sarah Palin is out on the campaign trail this week accusing Obama of dishonoring the troops, in essence calling them babykillers. This stems from an old charge she (her debate coaches) have resurrected about the Democrat, claiming he said “all we’re doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians” some 14 [...]
I attended a reunion dinner last night with about fifteen former CIA colleagues from the Directorate of Operations. The discussion inevitably turned to politics and it soon became clear that I was the only one present who would not be voting for John McCain. Though feeling somewhat like General Custer at the Little Big Horn, [...]
Filed under: War
(O)nce war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Familiar to every graduate of West Point, the words are from the farewell address of General MacArthur, to [...]
Filed under: War
The new issue of World Affairs includes a symposium on the American election as seen from abroad. And guess where the first entry comes from? That’s right–Raphael Glucksmann gushes from Tbilisi, where John McCain is very popular indeed, at least among the cronies of President Mikheil Saakashvili:
I headed back to my hotel where an adviser [...]
On Sept. 30, 1938, 70 years ago, Neville Chamberlain visited Adolf Hitler’s apartment in Munich, got his signature on a three-sentence declaration and flew home to Heston Aerodrome.
“I’ve got it,” he shouted to Lord Halifax. “Here is a paper which bears his name.” At the request of George VI, Chamberlain was driven to Buckingham Palace, [...]
I watched the presidential debate at Reason’s HQ, where Libertarian Bob Barr responded in real time to the major candidates’ answers. I was afraid the event would be Barr shouting at a television, but the whole thing came off surprisingly well — the candidate would just motion to an aide to mute the volume when [...]
Filed under: Election, War, libertarianism
McCain will bomb Iran if he becomes president. Joshua Muravchik said so explicitly at his debate with Steven Walt at the Nixon Center last night. Jim Lobe has the story:
He also asserted that “McCain is by history more of a neo-con than Bush” (no quarrel there) and noted that his service as chair of the [...]
Filed under: War
“Our nominee doesn’t run with the Washington herd” — Sarah Palin, GOP convention speech, 2008.
Unless in that herd are refugees, loan-outs and moonlighters from the current Bush Administration and its two presidential campaigns, then yes, John McCain does ride with the herd Sarah, hoping of course, to ride it all the way to the [...]
The Israeli media is reporting the Russia has negotiated the use of port facilities in the Syrian city of Tarsus, intending to establish a base for Mediterranean operations for its Black Sea fleet. It also sent two Tupelov long range bombers to Caracas last Wednesday on a friendly visit and will carry out both naval [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
The American-Arab-Lebanese-Shiite Neoconservative Middle East expert Fouad Ajami has been transformed from a serious scholar and a gifted author into a leading propagandist for the War Party. Last year, for example, he compared Scooter Libby to fallen U.S. Soldiers in Iraq.
In his most recent piece in the (guess) Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, he explains that [...]