AntiWar.com blogger Christopher Deliso has a Richard Perle update.
Juan Cole explains “What a Document Looks Like” to the Weekly Standard‘s Jonathan Schanzer.
Professor Cole also comments on democracy in Iran in the March 1, 2004 issue of The Nation.
In that same issue Robert Dreyfuss weighs in on liberal think tanks, specifically the Center for American Progress, and quotes Max Sawicky in it:
“Often when people say we need new ideas, they really mean they’re looking for centrist ideas, and they dress them up to look new.”
The article proves how true a statement it is:
In two other important areas, Podesta’s center is likely to ruffle feathers on the left. The first is national security. Bob Boorstin, whose portfolio at the center is defense, said, “On the Howard Dean/Sam Nunn scale, we’re on the Sam Nunn end,” managing at once to insult the party’s front-runner at the time and bind himself to the former senator from Georgia, a Dixiecrat cold war hawk who never met a military program he didn’t like. Boorstin said that on national security Americans trust Republicans over Democrats by a gap of 35 percentage points. “My job is to take the thirty-five-point gap and shrink it, so that we’re viewed as credible again,” he said. “It’s vital that we Democrats demonstrate through our ideas that we are not a bunch of wimps.” The bloated military budget, now $400 billion and counting, is fine with Podesta; a paper he co-wrote says: “Democrats should support sustaining the increased military funding level for [the Defense Department] that has occurred since 9/11. Funding DOD at this higher level will keep the military second to none, now and in the future.”
More on ‘third-way’ policy aka one-party rule from Mark Hand.
river on Angry Arabs and American Media… and quote attributions.