Antiwar.com Blog

Add another barking rat to the liberventionist nest. This one says the folks at Mises are “stark raving nuts” for criticizing Bush foreign policy, whether that policy is right or not. Hmmm. Oh well, he’s the expert:

Back in college I had a poli sci prof whose politics were straight out of the Scoop Jackson Democrat school. He always said that US politics were a circle rather than a spectrum. If you went far enough to the right, you ended up being a lefty. The Rothbard/Rockwell crew at the Mises Blog stand as proof he was right. I have a very hard time separating them from the nuts at ANSWER.

And I have a hard time distinguishing Glenn Reynolds’ lips from this guy’s ass, but I’ll venture that careful study might show the two to be discrete items. All I’m sure of is that David Frum’s “expose” of the antiwar right was pathetic tripe, and anyone who cites it approvingly can be dismissed with a laugh.

Those lefties over at Counterpunch understand the wisdom of Richard Cobden better than 90% of so-called conservatives and libertarians.

So maybe al Qaeda exploited US jihad support prior to Sept 11, 2001, but since then the government has been kicking the terrorists’ butts. Right?

Maybe not.

According to a new Syracuse University study, in the 2 years after the Sept 11 attacks the Justice Department resolved 2681 terrorism-related cases referred by investigators. Of these:

– 1,554 were thrown out without charges being filed. Of the remaining 1127 cases:

– 234 were dismissed. Of the remaining 893 cases:

– 14 resulted in not guilty verdicts. Of the remaining 879 cases:

– 506 resulted in no prison sentence. Of the remaining 373 cases:

– 260 were sentenced to the time they had already spent in jail, and were released. Of the remaining 113 cases:

– 23 were sentenced to 5 or more years — as compared with 24 sentenced to 5 or more years in the two years before the 9/11 attacks.

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“Terrorism cases fizzling out in US courts: study,” LA Times:

“…[W]hile 184 people have been convicted of crimes deemed to involve ‘international terrorism,’ defendants were sentenced to a median prison term of just 14 days.”

Heartily recommends Aleksandar Jokic’s “Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland” from “Today’s Spotlight.” Is Andrew really so ignorant of our critique of neoconservatism as to think that the Lenin comparison is new? If so, I suggest he start with Chad Nagle’s “The New Leninism” from February of this year. There may be hope for him yet.

A couple of questions as the White House rebukes John Kerry for using the f-word in Rolling Stone:

*How short is Andrew Card’s memory?

*Is Kerry worse than Kerrey?

The indefatigable Jim Henley has a laugh at the new gee whiz WMD claims.