7-2-08

WSJ Op-Ed: “Bush’s Third Term…We’re beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of “George Bush’s third term.” Maybe he’s worried that someone will notice that he’s the candidate who’s running for it….All of which prompts a couple of thoughts. The first is that Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to think American political sentiment has moved as far left as most of the media claim. Another is that the next President, whether Democrat or Republican, is going to embrace much of Mr. Bush’s foreign and antiterror policy whether he admits it or not. Think Eisenhower endorsing Truman’s Cold War architecture.”

Christopher Caldwell on General Clark’s Autobiography (Slate Magazine July 2001): “But at the book’s core is an agenda of score-settling and ass-covering–and there’s plenty of both to do. I don’t really see the difference between “modern war,” as Clark describes it, and a cynical kind of media savvy.”

Richard Fernandez: “Amir Taheri describe’s al-Qaeda’s “Plan C” in an article in the New York Post. Plan A, based on Osama Bin Laden’s assessment of the President Clinton’s reaction to the Blackhawk Down incident was that one short and sharp rap would send America tumbling down. But that didn’t work so well and so Plan B, advanced by Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for seizing power in various Islamic countries, such as Iraq. But since that didn’t turn out very successfully either, al Qaeda’s chief theoretician, Sheik Abu-Bakar Naji, has come up with a new and surefire scheme.”

Patterico’s Pontifications: Blogger Catches Justice Kennedy With His Pants Down

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