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How Irish Republicans Saved Civilization
Tweet Share on Facebook March 19, 2007 CommentThat's the title of a blog post by my frequent E-mail correspondent Ironman for St. Patrick's Day. It's a little late but still worth savoring–more so than leftover corned beef and cabbage, certainly.
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Is It Lobbying, or Is It Serious Research?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 16, 2007 CommentThat's a question raised by this column in the New York Post by Rep. Gregory Meeks. Meeks is a Democrat who represents the Sixth Congressional District of New York–essentially, southeastern Queens. The district's population in 2000 was 52 percent black and 9 percent Asian; it voted 87 to 10 percent for Al Gore in 2000 and 84 to 15 percent for John Kerry in 2004. Meeks, as you might expect, has a voting record well to the left in the House–though not as far left as some members. Yet he supports a relaxation of the audit requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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Let Sandy Berger Have His Say
Tweet Share on Facebook March 16, 2007 CommentIn response to my U.S. News column this week, Sandy Berger has sent me the following E-mail. I'm presenting it as written, with typos corrected, with his permission. I've had my say; let him have his say.
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed Confesses
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2007 CommentThe Pentagon has released a report on the confessions of captured al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
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Andrew Roberts
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2007 CommentLast week British historian Andrew Roberts had lunch at the White House with George W. Bush and a glittering array of other writers: Norman Podhoretz, Paul Gigot, Michael Novak, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, and Irwin Stelzer. Here is Stelzer's account, from the Weekly Standard online edition. And here's Michael Novak's slightly different account of the lunch. The news: Karl Rove and Bush are having a contest to see who can read the most books this year.
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Putting Iraq in Perspective
Tweet Share on Facebook March 13, 2007 CommentColumnist, novelist, and soldier Austin Bay in this column puts Iraq in historical perspective, over a span of 4,000 (!) years. He revisits his own arguments for military intervention:
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Observations
Tweet Share on Facebook March 12, 2007 CommentHere's my U.S. News column for this week. And here's Robert Kagan's Sunday Washington Post column, arguing that the surge is succeeding.
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An Event in the Blogosphere
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2007 Comment (1)Yesterday, due to an internal U.S. News mistake, a posting by my co-U.S. News blogger Bonnie Erbe was posted under my name. Andrew Sullivan quickly linked to the post on his blog, but he also E-mailed me to ascertain whether the post was indeed mine. Puzzled, I E-mailed him back that I could not recall writing anything on the subject (the recent firings of several U.S. attorneys). I also received an E-mail from conservative blogger Tom Elia, who had doubts that I had written the post. I E-mailed him and told him that I had not and, as an update to his post notes, told him that Sullivan had taken the initiative in trying to verify whether I had written it.
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Iranian General Defects?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2007 CommentFormer Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asgari has disappeared after visiting Istanbul. Here's a roundup from Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald. And another from Pajamas Media. Here's more from Jim Geraghty of National Review Online. Geraghty is a bit miffed since he had lived in Ankara for a year or so and had just left Turkey before Asgari disappeared. On the positive side, it means he's off the list of those suspected of kidnapping the Iranian. Finally, the Washington Post has weighed in, reporting that Asgari is talking voluntarily with U.S. intelligence officials.
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The Progress of the Surge
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2007 CommentEmbedded blogger and Special Forces veteran Michael Yon blogs on the progress of the surge in Iraq. Bottom line: It's going pretty well. Which raises a question: Why didn't we do this sooner? Yon, by the way, is reader-supported; you can contribute here. And here is another upbeat report from Mohammed and Omar Fadhil of iraqthemodel.com.
