Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
America’s public and intellectual elites do not know history. How can we say we know our enemies or know ourselves. [sic] Sun Tzu would be ashamed, no? ~Michael Brendan Dougherty
Perhaps, or perhaps he would take it as evidence that we were pushovers ripe for an invasion.
More seriously, Michael’s post, inspired by Scott McConnell’s article comparing Iraq and Algeria [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
In Riverbend’s case, perhaps, we can excuse all this. As I said, she’s had to live with the situation, and we haven’t. But it also has to be kept in mind that she presents a special, one-sided, and in some ways quite misleading perspective–that of the Sunni Arab minority, and especially its urban professional classes. [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
Stephanopoulos: If this now declared deadline of Gen. Petraeus of September, if the political goals haven’t been met by then, do you see large scale Republican defections at that point?
Will: Absolutely. They do not want to have, as they had in 2006, another election on Iraq. George, it took 30, 40 years for the Republican [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
…to be so insanely wrong in his characterisations of other conservatives that he makes me look like an ecumenical bridge-builder who looks for the best in everyone’s ideas. I think there is a pretty big difference between objecting strongly to the betratyal of conservatism based on accurate assessments of what other people are proposing and the wild, scattershot style [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution. Devoid of any sustaining scientific basis, carbon trafficking is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed, just [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
What’s more, McCain argues on the basis of unmatched experience, including real military experience. None of the other candidates has so much as tried on a uniform. ~Niall Ferguson
I suppose if you must be a madcap warmonger, it doesn’t hurt that you at least have served in the military in wartime and suffered tremendously as [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
Ironically, the correct comparison is to the Republican Party in the United States. This is a political party that draws much of its support from the political mobilization of Christian sentiment. ~Matt Yglesias
Yglesias is responding to a Michael Rubin item here, which was an update on his original post about anti-AK rallies. The comparisons with [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
If the conservative movement’s domestic policy vision ran from Ponnuru on the right to Brooks on the left, well … Andrew might not be happy with the result (though I think his differences with both men are often more a matter of emphases and rhetoric than policy substance), but I’m pretty sure the GOP wouldn’t [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
The problem for Obama is that his failure to be more supportive of Israel will not be forgotten by those for whom this is a dealbreaker, which includes not only a fair share of Democratic donors, but also a significant voting bloc in states like New York and Florida. ~Susan Estrich
As I have already said, [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Daniel Larison
But neither the New Mexico governor nor the two senators with the most time in office said or did anything that ignited the sparks you need to move up in the hierarchy of the race, which inevitably becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Susan Estrich
This is something I hate about the political media. The “hierarchy” didn’t exist four [...]
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