John Tabin thinks that the case of Swissair Flight 330 “put paid to the naive notion that we can count on terrorists to leave us alone as long we leave them alone.” This is silly. First, I don’t think anyone has ever literally claimed that non-intervention was some kind of foolproof guarantee that one would […]

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Put me in Kevin Drum’s camp on the much-decried ABC News report of a covert American program to “destabilize” Iran’s government: It reeks to high heaven of a deliberate administration plant. ABC insists it gave the White House and CIA a chance to object to the story if reporting it would endanger operatives in the […]

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When Jimmy Carter is bagging on your foreign policy skillz, you know you’ve got problems.

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Just as a sort of afterthought to the vlog below, have you ever noticed that there’s a radical disconnect, according to the mainstream hawk narrative, between how we react to attacks, and how our opponents are imagined to react? If someone attempts to attack or intimidate us, as we all know, this invariably backfires, for […]

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Ross makes the necessary point vis a vis the furor over Reid’s acknowledgment that we have, in fact, lost the war in Iraq: Unless you want to take the insane position that it’s just impossible for the U.S. to ever lose a war As Long As Our Faith Is Strong, then at some point it […]

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A recent Spectator article making the rounds claims that we found WMD sites in Iraq after all, but a bipartisan conspiracy has worked to hide this fact, since it vindicates the original case for war, but also makes the administration look even more inept, as it turns out we failed to secure said sites in […]

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John Podhoretz approvingly quotes Joe Lieberman at AIPAC: There is something profoundly wrong when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. Why? Most of us are inspired to become passionate about things that are near to us, things we have some hope of influencing, rather than […]

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Remember the Flypaper Theory of the war in Iraq? You know “fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here,” get all the world’s jihadis concentrated in one convenient place? Well, Kevin Drum notices, not so much.

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Various bloggers are cheering yesterday’s ABC News report that radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the guy who rocks the body that rocks the Mahdi Army, has fled Iraq for Iran. Obviously, we can’t know what’s really going on, but this sounds incredible fishy. Consider some of Captain Ed’s reasons for cheering: This couldn’t have come at […]

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Writing in The Washington Times, Diana West appears to be having a minor schizoid episode: She doesn’t seem to think that a “surge” in Iraq would be successful, or even that it would do much for U.S. security interests in the unlikely event that it were. But she’s also “incensed” at legislators who are opposing […]

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