My unacknowledged (by both they and I) boycott of The Nation and its website has had few ill effects. Except, that is, it has limited my exposure to their only useful writer, David Corn.
No more. In effort at promoting his new book, Mr. Corn has established himself an independent website and blog at Bushlies.com. Moreover, the site uses a tool dear to my heart and website Wordpress.
I do wonder whether the site will only last the run of the book, or the Bush Presidency, but it is useful nonetheless. The site’s name and intent does would not appear to have steam beyond either/or.
His latest article criticizes the half-measure mea culpa over Iraq published by a magazine I hold in similar disdain, The New Republic.
He writes of one piece:
In this we’re-not-sorry special issue, Kenneth Pollack’s piece stands out. He recounts a debate he had in the fall of 2002 with Bill Galston, a University of Maryland professor and former colleague of his in the Clinton administration. Galston held up a copy of Pollack’s book, The Threatening Storm, and said, “If we were going to get Ken Pollack’s war, I could be persuaded to support it. But we are not going to get Ken Pollack’s war; we are going to get George Bush’s war, and that is a war I will not support.”
The aspirations of neo-liberal interventionists anywhere died a flamboyant death in George Bush’s hands and war.
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