Intersting point by Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan, who once was the editor-in-chief of the New Republic, wrote this op-ed of Clinton's overall campaign strategy recently.


"..the Clintons have turned Pennsylvania into a microcosm of what they think
the general election will be in November. And the Clintons are running as
the Rove Republicans. If they fail to destroy Barack Obama as effectively as
Karl Rove – Bush’s master of the dark arts – destroyed Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000
and 2004, with tactics just as brutal but even more personal, then they will
have driven American politics to a critical point. They will have shown that the
paradigm that has reigned in US politics for at least two decades has been shattered. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article3778978.ece

Life imitates art

On Volokh Conspiracy this post read easrly this morning

"Al Qaeda Objects to 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists: So do you think it might give
pause to 9/11 conspiracy theorists that Al Qaeda has now criticized Iran for spreading 9/11 conspiracy theories in an alleged effort to deny Al Qaeda the credit it believes it is due for the 9/11 attacks? Hmm, no, I guess not"

Which seems to bear an uncanny rememblance to this recent Onion clip; http://www.theonion.com/content/video/9_11_conspiracy_theories

old pdf from 2003 of realists against the Iraq war http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/P0012.pdf

A G-8 meeting with guns

The blog "vodka Pundit" on Nato expansion

NATO isn’t a defensive alliance anymore. It’s a club. It’s a very nice club of very nice countries, and it even has a very nice clubhouse — er, headquarters — in Belgium. But it’s an alliance without a plan, and without even a real enemy.

And while it probably wouldn’t hurt to let in a couple more members, two questions need to be asked. What would they contribute? And what would be our responsibilities?

No policy-makers asked these questions when NATO let in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and all the rest after 1989. And nobody important is asking them today.

So by all means, let in Ukraine. Bring in Georgia. Might as well let in Armenia and Mongolia, too. How about the Zambians? They seem nice.

My point is, it doesn’t matter. Because until NATO has a plan, it’s not a real alliance. It’s just a big G-8 meeting with guns.

Hitchens on Clinton

Hitchens take on Hillary's Bosnia gaffe on Slate.com.

It's hardly necessary for me to point out that the United States did not receive national health care in return for its acquiescence in the murder of tens of thousands of European civilians. But perhaps that is the least of it. Were I to be asked if Sen. Clinton has ever lost any sleep over those heaps of casualties, I have the distinct feeling that I could guess the answer. She has no tears for anyone but herself. In the end, and over her strenuous objections, the United States and its allies did rescue our honor and did put an end to Slobodan Milosevic and his state-supported terrorism. Yet instead of preserving a polite reticence about this, or at least an appropriate reserve, Sen. Clinton now has the obscene urge to claim the raped and slaughtered people of Bosnia as if their misery and death were somehow to be credited to her account! Words begin to fail one at this point. Is there no such thing as shame? Is there no decency at last? Let the memory of the truth, and the exposure of the lie, at least make us resolve that no Clinton ever sees the inside of the White House again.

jackass stunt gone wrong

Its hard to not to cringe at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uhWta-BIAA&feature=related