Category Archives: Political Commentary

A Sincere Apology To Huckabee

Well, actually, replace “sincere” with disingenuous. Nonetheless, this is one of the reasons that, if I were a Republican, I’d be voting for Fred Thompson.

And I should add that I don’t actually agree with the Cuba embargo, but it’s not a huge issue for me either way.

And speaking of Huckabee, one can see why the Dems would think him the most beatable candidate. I pretty much agree with everything here. I can’t stand Huckabee, either. My nightmare is a Hillary!/Huckabee choice.

Oh, one more comment. I was listening to Dennis Miller this morning in the car on the way to the dentists, and they said “Hey, he misspoke about Mormons thinking that Jesus and the devil were brothers. He meant to say Jews.”

“Blowback”

Lee Harris points out the fatal flaw in the argument of the “non-interventionists“:

We may agree with Ron Paul that our interventionist policy in the Middle East has led to unintended negative consequences, including even 9/11, but this admission offers us absolutely no insight into what unintended consequences his preferred policy of non-intervention would have exposed us to. It is simply a myth to believe that only interventionism yields unintended consequence, since doing nothing at all may produce the same unexpected results. If American foreign policy had followed a course of strict non-interventionism, the world would certainly be different from what it is today; but there is no obvious reason to think that it would have been better.

“Blowback”

Lee Harris points out the fatal flaw in the argument of the “non-interventionists“:

We may agree with Ron Paul that our interventionist policy in the Middle East has led to unintended negative consequences, including even 9/11, but this admission offers us absolutely no insight into what unintended consequences his preferred policy of non-intervention would have exposed us to. It is simply a myth to believe that only interventionism yields unintended consequence, since doing nothing at all may produce the same unexpected results. If American foreign policy had followed a course of strict non-interventionism, the world would certainly be different from what it is today; but there is no obvious reason to think that it would have been better.

“Blowback”

Lee Harris points out the fatal flaw in the argument of the “non-interventionists“:

We may agree with Ron Paul that our interventionist policy in the Middle East has led to unintended negative consequences, including even 9/11, but this admission offers us absolutely no insight into what unintended consequences his preferred policy of non-intervention would have exposed us to. It is simply a myth to believe that only interventionism yields unintended consequence, since doing nothing at all may produce the same unexpected results. If American foreign policy had followed a course of strict non-interventionism, the world would certainly be different from what it is today; but there is no obvious reason to think that it would have been better.