Month: April 2005

Today’s spotlight article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of Jamail’s dispatches from Iraq, I was not surprised.

What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant by Steele about Blair’s “good war” in Kosovo – which, just to be clear, Steele supported then, and supports now. Steele was in full-froth mode, glorifying the ICG advocacy of Albanian separatism and declaring that not rewarding the KLA would be a “victory for Milosevic.” So forgive me if I take his “antiwar” sentiments with a grain of salt.

Steele – just like Georgie Anne Geyer and Anthony Lewis, to name just two notable pundits – opposes aggression in Iraq, not aggression as such. It would be interesting to find out what reasoning they can offer for such a position.

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, 3-5 pm Texas time (that’s central) I will, in a case of the most blatant interest-conflicting nepotism, be interviewing my boss, Justin Raimondo, all about the neoconservatives, and how they lied us into war in Iraq.

In the second hour, I’ll be talking with Peter Lance about his book A Thousand Years for Revenge, and the history of bin Laden, Yousef, Rahman, Zawahiri, etc.

Update: Show’s over, Archives here.

In the last two days, at least 4 US troops have been killed in combat in Iraq. On Thursday, one US soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device detonated near Hawij. Today, one soldier and two Marines were kiiled while “two others were wounded as the result of a vehicular born improvised explosive device.”

One of the ads on the right side of Instapundit just caught my eye. In it, an attractive model wears a T-shirt that reads:

ACLU
Enemy of the State

The C in ACLU is a hammer and sickle.

Since when is communism anti-state? And since when do conservatives, much less self-styled libertarians, consider “enemy of the state” a pejorative?

Lew Rockwell is right:

The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conservative middle class once cheered the circumscribing of the federal government, it now celebrates power and adores the central state, particularly its military wing.

Of course, no one ever accused these people of ideological coherence.

Other shirts from the same site: Peace Through Superior Firepower (why not “peace through free trade” or “peace through minding our own business”?), US Military World Tour, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Patriots/Evildoers, Why’s Our Oil Under Their Soil?, First Iraq, Then France.

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, 3-5 pm Texas time (that’s central) I will, in a case of the most blatant interest-conflicting nepotism, be interviewing my boss, Justin Raimondo, all about the neoconservatives, and how they lied us into war in Iraq.

In the second hour, I’ll be talking with Peter Lance about his book A Thousand Years for Revenge, and the history of bin Laden, Yousef, Rahman, Zawahiri, etc.

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Who’s the Iraq War “revisionist“? Julian Sanchez forgot to remember to forget what the warbots said way back when.

(Via Jim Henley.)