PATRIOTISM? WOULD YOU KNOW IT IF YOU SAW IT?

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MARK SALTER, JOHN McCAIN’S ABLE CHIEF OF STAFF AND CO-AUTHOR with McCain of three books — Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him; Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life; and Faith of My Fathers — protested Mark Goldberg’s critique of Tony Blair’s American…

NEW WIZARDS OF ARMAGEDDON: WHAT RICHARD PERLE FORGOT IN HIS LESSONS FROM ALBERT WOHLSTETTER

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ALBERT WOHLSTETTER WAS ONE OF THE PREMIER DEFENSE INTELLECTUALS of the last century — a very conservative one but still someone who understood the downsides involved in the Cold War’s “delicate balance of terror.

<em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> ON THE “BODY COUNT WAR”

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SEYMOUR HERSH CALLED IT RIGHT. Iraq has become a body count exercise, and we all need to be worried about the ramifications. The New York Times‘ Norimitsu Onishi asks in an article today “How Many Iraqis are Dying?” Best estimates for the past week: From Oct. 11 to Oct.

GEORGE W. BUSH’S FAITH-BASED PRESIDENCY

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RON SUSKIND LANDS THE BEST INDICTMENT YET of the Bush Administration’s hostility to reasoned, sensible and empirically-grounded policy making. Suskind writes: The nation’s founders, smarting still from the punitive pieties of Europe’s state religions, were adamant about erecting a wall between organized religion and political authority. But suddenly, that seems like a long time ago….