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Andrew Ferguson, Bloomberg News: President George W. Bush released his second National Security Strategy last week, and almost immediately the capital’s foreign policy experts began pecking at it like barnyard hens. It’s a funny thing about these foreign policy experts. Washington is often caricatured as a transient town, a rootless place where ambitious people come to make their mark and then vamoose. We should be so lucky. The real problem

Jawa Report (among others on the right, including the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes and Say Anything’s Rob Port) think so. Me, I think it a bad idea.  I understand the whole political impetus for “shakeup,” but I agree with one of Rusty’s commenters that early CPA—as well as some early missteps in learning the grammar of middle eastern nation (re)building—were more responsible for the imperfections in the campaign than was

Interesting bit from NRO’s Stanley Kurtz (who describes himself as being “on the neo-realist end of the neo-con spectrum”) about the necessity of the Iraq strategy as a nuclear deterrent, not as a program to push democratization: The problem in Iraq was never that it already possessed WMD’s, but that it might someday manufacture or purchase nukes. The failure to find WMD’s, and the resulting shift in the administration’s rhetorical

Though its name (Red America) sounds vaguely like some Tony Kushner one-acter that imagines a forbidden tryst between Joseph McCarthy and Lillian Hellman (“He Loved His Country, But He Loved Her Communist Dewpatch Even More!”), in actuality it is the moniker of the Washington Post‘s spanking new political blog.  Run by RedState co-founder Ben Domenech, former Capitol Hill political journalist, contributing editor to National Review Online, and—after 9/11, the youngest