3/3/07

Strange Bedfellows: paleocons and the left?

What a twisted political time we live in. The most recent issue of The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan's journal of paleoconservative thought, has three articles that -- with some important distinctions -- could have been published in Z Magazine.

What If We Leave?

When nightmare scenarios are used to justify endless war, it’s time to wake up.


Who Will Stop The Next War?

If Americans sickened by the carnage of Iraq wish to stop an even more disastrous war on Iran, they had best get cracking.

Honest Broker: Jimmy Carter’s book stirs a critical debate.

The ground seems to be shifting under our feet. M.J. Rosenberg, a progressive Zionist activist who works for Israel Policy Forum, wrote that he was surprised by the attitudes expressed at a Washington social gathering where Carter’s book had come up. The book had empowered gentiles to voice criticisms they have long held.