What was the Nexus?
(Update. Not that it matters much at this point but I fixed the link to the Letter to President Clinton. BW 1/3/09) No I am not asking about a car or misspelling LexisNexis or even talking about a new...
View ArticleHegemony on Steroids: the NeoCons, Iraq, and Historical Revisionism
by Bruce Webb Paul Rosenberg has started an interesting series over at Open Left that in some ways could see my post What is the Nexus? as prologue. The first post in the series is Hegemony On...
View ArticleRichard Perle: "Neo-conservatives don’t exist"
Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence “There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy,” Perle informed the gathering, hosted by National Interest magazine. “It is a left critique of what...
View ArticleIraq was JEB’s War: Started by the Dim Son Instead
There has been some furor over the “Would you have launched the Iraq War?” question posed to Jeb Bush mostly revolving around the question of whether he understood the qualifying “knowing what we know...
View ArticleJEB the Vulcan; the 90′s Roots of the Iraq War
Was the invasion of Iraq in 2003 a mistake based on false intelligence gathered post 9/11? Well for some that might be a reasonable excuse, say for the Senators who voted for the 2002 AUMF – the...
View ArticleThe Missing Follow Up Question: Why Iraq is Still a Landmine for Jeb and Marco
Over the last week the various talking heads have come to a consensus on two points about Iraq. One, given what we know now OF COURSE it was a mistake to go to war on Iraq. And two, why on Earth...
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