david brooks

About our successful nation-building in Iraq

Summary:  Wars corrupt everything they touch, including our minds.  In our pundits’ desperate attempt to justify the Iraq disaster they’ll write any sort of nonsense, confident that we’ll believe anything if confidently asserted.  Are they correct?  Today’s example:  “Nation Building Works“, David Brooks, op-ed in the New York Times, 30 August 2010. He gives two justifications for …

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Obama’s cabinet are the best and brightest (here we go, again)

Are you excited about the Obama Adminsitration?  They are one of the finest collections of Mandarins to rule us since the Kennedy Administration.   Here we see 3 perspectives on the new team.  At the end are links to other posts about the opening days of the Obama era. “The Insider’s Crusade“, David Brooks, op-ed in the …

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