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By Weldon Berger, on July 19th, 2011
“Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.”
– Max Boot
Max Boot is my favorite neoconservative. He is completely unfamiliar with the concept of shame and like the rest of his clan he won’t ever flinch when it comes time to put somebody else’s life on the line. Anyone whose conscience survives initiation into that club soon gets voted out.
Where Max really shines is as a polemicist. He’s a good writer. He can turn a juicy phrase like few others. That one above, his juiciest ever—and I know writers, I know he looked at it and thought to himself, “damn, I am good …”—went into a piece he wrote for the Weekly Standard not long after September 11.
Continue reading What Max Boot learned about Libya from Afghanistan and Iraq
By Weldon Berger, on May 3rd, 2011
The majority reaction to bin Laden’s demise from people on the for want of a better word progressive email list of which I’m a member included some or all of the following.
Obama’s reelection is now assured. Democrats can finally put paid to the “soft on defense” canard. Mission Accomplished! Fuck you, Donald Trump! . . . → Read More: News from the lunatic center: All the wars are still under warranty
By Weldon Berger, on November 10th, 2010
Evidence mounts that life is directed by Christopher Nolan. The New York Times is among a number of sources addressing the Obama administration’s supposedly recent decision to distance themselves from the lame duck president’s 2011 deadline to make plans to talk about a potential timeline for withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan. Here’s Elisabeth Bumiller.
. . . → Read More: We are shocked—shocked!—about Obama and Afghanistan, plus: Ghandi!
By Weldon Berger, on November 9th, 2010
While I’ve already addressed the Obama trip to India, and related items, I did not do so in British. For that, we turn to the Robot Pundits and their news and political analysis show, Beside The Point. They’re smarter! . . . . → Read More: Robot Pundits on the Obama excursion
By Weldon Berger, on November 4th, 2010
The United States is slightly less corrupt than France, exactly so as Belgium and more so than Barbados, Qatar and 19 other countries. This according to Transparency International, a shadowy group which is sort of like the Illuminati of transparency—I was going to say the Trilateral Commission but that organization now have a web . . . → Read More: America! We’re Number … Twenty-something. But we beat France!
By Weldon Berger, on October 21st, 2010
The shadowy, demonic organization known as WikiLeaks, until the past few days most famous for releasing tens of thousands of Pentagon documents reaffirming the degree to which the US adventure in Afghanistan was, is and will continue to be well and truly fucked, is now in the news for not releasing an even larger . . . → Read More: Anti-WikiLeaks clown car gets crowded, plus the World Bank and more
By Weldon Berger, on September 27th, 2010
When the military figured out the occupation of Iraq was bound to be long and bloody, they began looking for ways to bolster recruiting efforts that were beginning to flag because many potential recruits were beginning to realize that between Iraq and Afghanistan, the odds of serving in a combat zone were really, really . . . → Read More: Army sings the blues, or at least the “Too Fat Polka”
By Weldon Berger, on September 22nd, 2010
Whether intentionally or not I can’t say, but AP White House correspondent Ben Feller has written a comic story about the pending Obama address to the UN general assembly. Among the gems: “Since he last addressed the U.N. body, he won the Nobel Peace Prize and significantly increased U.S. forces in Afghanistan, trying to . . . → Read More: Obama travels to the UN, hideous ironies in tow
By Weldon Berger, on September 21st, 2010
Apparently people will keep telling Bob Woodward stuff until he dies, and possibly afterward. Instead of wandering the halls in drunken communion with portraits of dead predecessors, presidents of the future will turn to the scribe’s stuffed and mounted body for a sympathetic ear, because they’ll never fucking learn.
From the New York Times . . . → Read More: Administration gives Bob Woodward access; hilarity ensues.
By Weldon Berger, on September 21st, 2010
It took about five minutes after the words “July, 2011″ left President Obama’s mouth for the administration, via the Pentagon, to start walking back the putative beginning of the endgame for the US in Afghanistan. First we learned that the deadline was the beginning of a process the speed of which would be dictated . . . → Read More: Afghanistan withdrawal timeline is moonwalking like Michael Jackson
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Word of the Decade Ignoranus: An ignorant asshole.
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