A Knight in Dragonland

There is something about this quest for absolute security that is self-defeating. It is an exercise which, like every form of perfectionism, undermines and destroys its own basic purpose. The French have their wonderful proverb: Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien–the absolute best is the enemy of the good. Nothing truer has ever been said [...]

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Andrew Sullivan has been on a roll lately. Here’s a great analysis of McCain’s Iraq strategy from the Daily Disher.
If McCain is going to give us straight talk – one thing the Bush administration has been completely unable to do – and believes that Iraq should remain a permanently integrated part of a [...]

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The drop in violence has been considerable and is a fantastic achievement by the U.S. but it’s worth reminding ourselves that this “victory” still means 600 civilian deaths a month. That’s roughly two 9/11s a month, when adjusting for population size – but more terrifying because more random. It reduces violence to the levels of [...]

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In this post, Andrew Sullivan reviews Charlie Savage’s new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency. Sullivan discusses how torture is not only immoral, but also so counter-productive that it threatens our national security.
The torture techniques that our government now use on terror suspects were designed to extract false confessions in totalitarian societies [...]

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I haven’t quoted Andrew Sullivan in a while, but I find his words regarding the travesty of justice perpetrated by President Bush on July 2 quite compelling:
The Republican party impeached the last president for perjury over sexual harassment. But they commute the sentence of a man who perjured himself in part because he leaked a [...]

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As any who follow my blog will have noticed, one of my favorite big-time national bloggers is Andrew Sullivan. Acknowledging that I admire an HIV+ homosexual who strongly advocates for gay marriage probably sets me apart from the majority of my fellow Heartlanders, even if he does describe himself as a conservative and speak [...]

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