6 Responses to “Right And Left”

1. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Radicals! Socialists! Hardcore Leftist! Palling Around With Terrorists!, on November 24th, 2008 at 11:42 am Said:

   [...] The silliness continues. [...]

2. cbh8377, on November 24th, 2008 at 12:27 pm Said:

   Ed Morrisey: Radical leftists = people who don’t think exactly as I do on these issues. It’s name-calling, not analysis, a rhetorical tactic some pundits specialize in (heck, one of NRO’s finest based an entire book on it).

3. antrastan, on November 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm Said:

   Kakutani is *such a hack*.

4. Daniel Larison, on November 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm Said:

   No doubt. Her remarks on Bacevich’s book prove that. That doesn’t change the truth of the observation about Scowcroft and “Zbig.”

5. mkdelucas, on November 25th, 2008 at 9:54 am Said:

   Well, when the intellectual spectrum is about two feet wide, what else is a public ideologue to do? Tell his audience, “yeah, business as usual”? Not a lot of page views in that.

6. WRW, on November 25th, 2008 at 1:38 pm Said:

   Kakutani’s “analysis” (a hagiography of the foreign policy establishment) indeed illustrates mkdelucas’ point about the narrowness of the public debate. Certainly, one can argue that a class of “realists” were ignored by the Bush crowd. But one can also argue that the notion of American hegemony was enshrined by Bush I and solidified by Clinton (after being given its pedagogical basis by Reagan.) The foreign policy elite that was virtually silent in opposing the Iraq War (and noticeably silent, including Scrowcroft and Zbig in challenging the false bases for it, not simply the methods) is now desperate to cast out the Bushies and exonerate themselves from responsibility. Indeed, Bush Iraq disaster has helped mask over the utter failure of Scowcroft and Zbig, etc., policies in the Balkans and the former USSR. If not for the failed war, more attention could be focused on the earlier failed war.

   While I’d rather have Scowcroft, etc., in charge than Libby, Addison, etc., lets not pretend they aren’t all from the same party. Their criticisms of each other (even while agreeing on Russo-phobia) look like the sort of meaningless internal rivalries you used to see with the Left.

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