Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Blagojevich makes his case on Letterman

The Chicago Trib has the story: “I’ve been wanting to be on your show in the worst way for the longest time,” Blagojevich told Letterman at the start of his...

By Damir Marusic • Feb 04,2009

Defense Cuts and an Empire Stretched Thin

Dov Zakheim repeats Bob Kagan’s incorrect assertion that Obama is about to cut the DoD budget. As I pointed out yesterday, Congressional Quarterly is claiming (via Wired, I don’t have a...

By Daniel Kennelly • Feb 04,2009

The Taliban as Aliens

I can understand why Daniel Larison is outraged at Ralph Peters’ column arguing that as a mental exercise we ought to think of Taliban as being alien life forms. Given...

By David Polansky • Feb 04,2009

I say, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing wrong

(UPDATE: go read Damir on this first) Over at Shadow Gov’t, my friend Christian Brose has a pair of bracing posts on reshaping our foreign service to more accurately reflect...

By Damir Marusic • Feb 04,2009

Conservatism and Capitalism, Part II III

The Tanenhaus reactions are coming in fast and furious. Here‘s Damon Linker. Here‘s a certain Dr. Russell Arben Fox, someone I’ve never read before, and someone I’ll be adding to...

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Could the New York Times publish this today?

About a week before the presidential election, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued that the United States needed to build more nuclear weapons. In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment...