Comments on: Reflexive Hostility Has Its Advantages http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/08/10/reflexive-hostility-has-its-advantages/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: If I Lived in a Swing State, I’d Vote for Obama « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/08/10/reflexive-hostility-has-its-advantages/comment-page-1/#comment-13173 If I Lived in a Swing State, I’d Vote for Obama « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:47:55 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/08/10/reflexive-hostility-has-its-advantages/#comment-13173 [...] If I Lived in a Swing State, I’d Vote for Obama August 11, 2008, 9:47 am Filed under: foreign affairs, politics, war Or at least that’s what the astonishing belligerence of John McCain - and his official campaign mouthpieces, of course - on the Russo-Georgian conflict is inclining me to think. As Bill Kristol’s latest stream of batshit insanity reminds us, there’s a deeply dangerous ideology behind the sort of rhetoric that excuses Saakashvili’s warmongering irredentism on the grounds of his ostensibly “democratic” election and his regime’s token support for the invasion of Iraq, and purging Washington of those politicians who have fallen under its spell is clearly the top priority for the present election cycle. And yes, I’m aware that recent events have made Russia into at least as deserving a target for American opprobrium as Georgia is, but that is no excuse for slinging the charge of false equivocation at anyone willing to point out the obvious need for mutual restraint. There is a desperate need to avoid this sort of needless provocation, and it is becoming clearer by the day that John McCain is all but incapable of doing that. [...] [...] If I Lived in a Swing State, I’d Vote for Obama August 11, 2008, 9:47 am Filed under: foreign affairs, politics, war Or at least that’s what the astonishing belligerence of John McCain – and his official campaign mouthpieces, of course – on the Russo-Georgian conflict is inclining me to think. As Bill Kristol’s latest stream of batshit insanity reminds us, there’s a deeply dangerous ideology behind the sort of rhetoric that excuses Saakashvili’s warmongering irredentism on the grounds of his ostensibly “democratic” election and his regime’s token support for the invasion of Iraq, and purging Washington of those politicians who have fallen under its spell is clearly the top priority for the present election cycle. And yes, I’m aware that recent events have made Russia into at least as deserving a target for American opprobrium as Georgia is, but that is no excuse for slinging the charge of false equivocation at anyone willing to point out the obvious need for mutual restraint. There is a desperate need to avoid this sort of needless provocation, and it is becoming clearer by the day that John McCain is all but incapable of doing that. [...]

]]> By: Josh SN http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/08/10/reflexive-hostility-has-its-advantages/comment-page-1/#comment-13143 Josh SN Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:40:31 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/08/10/reflexive-hostility-has-its-advantages/#comment-13143 Must be tough to have to do this. I'm unaware of any pro-Schevarnadze or pro-Chechen comments he's made, but I did recently watch the re-air of the 1987 War Powers Act debate on the Senate Floor. This was the tanker war, U.S. Flags on Kuwaiti tankers, then the Vincennes incident. He was quibbling about the difference to "make" and "declare" war and, in my not-so-humble-opinion, rewrote Madison's August 17th, 1787 notes on the Constitutional Convention. Must be tough to have to do this.

I’m unaware of any pro-Schevarnadze or pro-Chechen comments he’s made, but I did recently watch the re-air of the 1987 War Powers Act debate on the Senate Floor. This was the tanker war, U.S. Flags on Kuwaiti tankers, then the Vincennes incident.

He was quibbling about the difference to “make” and “declare” war and, in my not-so-humble-opinion, rewrote Madison’s August 17th, 1787 notes on the Constitutional Convention.

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