Did anyone else find the third presidential debate just appallingly narcissistic and self-congratulatory? Good lord. Good thing America is around to show you bubble-headed foreigners the way to freedom. I could run through all the offensive,...
A crass, gaudy, all-American display.Someone named Steven Walt has published an article, wildly posted on the Internet, entitled “The Myth of American Exceptionalism”. I don’t know who Mr. Walt is,...
Donald Douglas over at American Power weighs in with a laudatory post about Brian Rathbun's recent article -- an article in which neoconservatism is equated with and defined as "moral nationalism."...
No measurement of quality of life is complete without an awesomeness-of-being-American input. Thus, we can safely reject this study's conclusions.
The BBC reports:US President George W Bush has appealed for people to give his strategy in Iraq a chance - holding up Israel as a model for defining success there.He said America would like to see Iraq function as a democracy while dealing with violence - just as Israel does.Speaking at the US Naval War College, Mr Bush said success in Iraq would not be defined by an end to attacks.His remarks come as members of his Republican party are increasingly turning against the war in Iraq.The US president characterised the war in Iraq as primarily against al-Qaeda forces and their use of...
Mark of Zenpundit, one of my favorite people in the blogsphere, recently announced that he's joined some outfit called "Chicagoboyz." Now, I'd never heard of them, but they're clearly much higher up on the foodchain than the Duck. If I read Reynolds I would, apparently, find many links to them.Their politics? I quote from the masthead:Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above (we claim...
We have all heard the charge before that some in the public sphere always “Blame America First” whenever there is a negative outcome in world politics. Critics charge that these folks are quick to find some connection, however remote or irrational, between American action (or inaction) and the ills of the world. To be fair this characterization is obviously a stereotype, however it isn’t entirely inaccurate. There are certainly some voices that consistently (though not always) go to great lengths to assign blame to American policies.However, we rarely see the flip-side of the “Blame America...
Dan posted a while back on the debate over at Democracy Arsenal by members of the Truman National Security Project on what a progressive national security platform would/should look like. He provided a summary-to-date of the discussion, which I shamelessly pilfered for this post:Michael Singer started by posting a series of common principles that he felt had emerged from the Truman National Security Project's annual meeting. At America Abroad, Ivo Daalder took issue with Singer's description of American exceptionalism. Suzanne Nossel also responded to Singer's post, taking issue with each of...
Bill recently argued that, contra left-wing grumbling, the Bush administration has consistently embraced democratic enlargement as an element of its grand strategy. His post struck a nerve with some commentators, generating the kind of debate I hope happens more often as the readership of this blog expands. I want to shift the debate a little bit towards the issue of "framing." George Lakoff's arguments about political framing have become a hot topic among liberal and left-wing bloggers. Many embrace Lakoff's work. They believe that one of the major problems for "the left" in general, and...