Via the Economist blog, a British think-tank tries to puzzle out why Tony Blair’s term has been such a disaster: The root failure [of Blair’s diplomacy] has been the inability to influence the Bush administration in any significant way despite the sacrifice–military, political and financial – that the United Kingdom has made. There are two …
Archives for December 2006
Mugged By Reality
For a very amusing read, go read Hilzoy. The essential point in all this is that John Derbyshire, paid advocate for unrestricted free markets, seems to expect free markets to always work out in his personal favor. That sort of reasoning is a sign of an extremely sheltered mind.
Who the Hell is James Taranto?
Interesting piece about the the blah-blahsphere in the Opinion Journal, and frighteningly accurate: Because political blogs are predictable, they are excruciatingly boring. More acutely, they promote intellectual disingenuousness, with every constituency hostage to its assumptions and the party line. Thus the right-leaning blogs exhaustively pursue second-order distractions–John Kerry always providing useful material–while leaving underexamined more …
Heh
New blogger Tom Delay, quoted by Dr. Mrs. Instapundit: When was the last time the Republicans or conservatives attacked the left for their outrageous comments or outrageous activities? We don’t attack. Well, maybe they should try. Via.
They Already Know the Withdrawal Dates
Tim has already touched on the Decider’s decision to send more troops and the refusal to re-evaluate his decision despite the fact that pretty much everyone in the world except for the readers of Hugh Hewitt and Red State think a change in strategy is needed, but I thought I would throw this out there: …
Plenty Of Fingers To Go Around
It strikes me that the president’s determination to throw more troops into Iraq or as I call it, break the army requires giving the finger to a remarkable number of different groups of people. Start with the new Democratic majority, who the president has maneuvered to shut out entirely from Iraq decisionmaking. That might mean …
Been Gone So Long..
I have not been blogging or reading blogs for so long ( a week), it seems like I don’t even know what is going on anymore. I guess I will just start with a quick rundown of what I have observed reading the blogs this morning. 1.) I see that the President has decided on …