July
18th 2012
Posted under CoffeeTime
Here are a few articles I have found as I have been perusing the Internet to see what I missed while I was away.
Here is Daniel Larison on the cognitive disconnect among those who oppose globalism on one hand but support interventionism on the other.
Here is Daniel Larison on what the “Obamacons” will do this year. I’ll have more to say on this separately. See my comments on the post for a taste.
Heard talk of Condi for Veep? Pat Buchanan blows this silly nonsense out of the water.
Here’s Jim Antle on the battle between spending hawks and defense hawks.
DYD on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:17 pm #
PJB: “That Rice is accomplished and competent is not in dispute.”
She is most certainly neither.
As National Security Advisor prior to 9/11 she dismissed warnings about Al Qaida from George Tenet, preferring to focus on missile defense from the very outdated and non-threatening ‘foe’ Russia. After the attacks, she backed the absurd and since throughly disproven idea that Iraq was connected to Al Qaida and had WMDs. After the disastrous Iraq invasion, she headed the Iraq Stabilization Group as Iraq descended further into chaos until the group was finally disbanded.
RedPhillips on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:19 pm #
I suspect that was a bit of a throw away comment from Pat. When I read that my thought was “I wouldn’t call her competent.”
Matt Weber on 19 Jul 2012 at 12:39 am #
Surely the Obamacon joke isn’t going to return. I don’t expect we’ll ever settle the matter of what makes one a conservative, but it’s safe to say voting for Obama is an immediate disqualification.
Aaron on 19 Jul 2012 at 1:18 pm #
Speaking of recent links and conservatism, I really liked this article at VDARE by John Derbyshire on mainstream conservatism.