The always interesting Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror , Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq , and Osama bin Laden , has published a useful summary of recent events in the Muslim world. A sample: The revolt in Egypt perhaps provides the finest example of… Read More
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Finally, a Conservative Who Isn’t Naive on Foreign Policy
Andrew Bacevich, in his new book Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War , takes apart the saccharine platitudes of the bipartisan foreign-policy consensus, ideas one is considered “crazy” or a “kook” for challenging, and finds that it is these platitudes themselves that are crazy, ahistorical, without foundation, etc. Bacevich, a contributing… Read More
Gingrich Latest Phony to Rise in Polls
A recent South Carolina poll has three status-quo candidates — Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich — with a commanding lead. South Carolina Republicans evidently believe the country is basically on the right track if they’re content with candidates who pledge to change things about… Read More
Business Is Hard, So Why Hate the Business Class?
Jeff Tucker writes : You think business is easy? Then you must read this story about a New York coffee shop, and how it is an impossible proposition to try to run something like this. The story doesn’t even go into taxes and employment mandates. It’s a wonder that… Read More
ONE WEEK Before Collapse, Cain Says Economy Great
Amazingly, Herman Cain’s star continues to rise, which means Republicans think it’s all right for someone to endorse Mitt Romney, as Cain did, to support TARP (it’s not his fault, say supporters — he somehow had no idea it would be used to “pick winners… Read More
Calling All Polite, Rational Cain Supporters
The Gullible, Naive Right Wing
Well, at least the phony neoconservative variety. In his book Washington Rules , Andrew Bacevich, with me a contributing editor of The American Conservative , puts his finger on Americans’ (though especially neocons’) eagerness to embrace fantasy and propaganda when it comes to foreign affairs: As a boy growing up… Read More
Is Centralization Inevitable?
After I spoke at the University of Colorado at Boulder last week, someone asked whether political centralization was inevitable, given the advantages in warfare that a centralized state enjoys, and thus the relative danger of remaining a small or decentralized state. A philosophy professor followed… Read More
Apocalypse Not
Whether or not a sixth U.S. war could deal with them, would those Iranian nukes, which we have no evidence exist, be the end of the world? Michael Desch wonders .
The Criminal Career of Rudy Giuliani
I was surprised the other day when someone on Twitter criticized me for defending Michael Milken in my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History . Why, didn’t I know he had pleaded guilty? Here’s Paul Craig Roberts, in an article called “The Criminal Career of Rudy Giuliani,” giving us a taste… Read More