Posted 8:46 PM by extinct

Not Dead Yet

Sorry to be stale, but i can be read here and at this subblog here at Aqoul.

The title of this entry will be hilariously ironic if I am actually dead when you read it. Too bad I'll be missing the laugh.

Posted 7:49 PM by extinct

Warbloggers Can Go Home Now, and Take Ann Coulter too.

Quote of the day:

We had consensus [on Afghanistan]. Both sides of the aisle in Congress and the entire nation agreed that al-Qaeda had to be kept from continuing its attacks.

Sadly . . . we have squandered our opportunity to face terrorism with unified and coherent action. The right's neocons orchestrated a war with Iraq that has destroyed national consensus and they are culpable for politicizing the individual soldier by repeatedly sending the message that to criticize policy equates attacking the soldier. . . .

-- Geoffrey Lambert, Maj Gen.-Ret., U.S. Army; Commander, Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), 2001 to 2003.

Posted 7:36 PM by extinct

Am I the Only One Catching the Irony here?

Kate Michelman, the longtime leader of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), the main voice of "pro-choice" advocacy on abortion, is feted with these words from Madeleine Albright in a Washington Post tribute:

[Albright] and others testified to Michelman's energy and focus.... Albright told everyone that Michelman had provided "a voice for those who didn't have a voice and a brain for those who didn't have a brain."

I suspect alot of likeminded folks of theirs still won't pick up on the irony, even if it's directly pointed out.

UPDATE: I should have checked...I am, it appears, not the only one to notice.

Posted 6:34 AM by extinct

Nation-Building, the Bureaucracy

Justin Logan and Chris Preble of the CATO Institute take on the idea of the new State Deparment Colonial Office, excuse me Nation-Building office, here. A bit long and wonkish as are think-tank pieces, but full of gems.