Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2816
June 25, 2010
Worse Than We Thought
Avent studies the GDP revision:
Not only was growth revised downward. In addition, what
occurred was more dependent on transitory factors and less dependent
the underlying economic fundamentals than earlier seemed to be the case.Thisisn't a complete travesty of a GDP revision, but it does suggest thatrecovery is weaker and less well established than was previouslybelieved. Which makes sense, against the rest of the statisticallandscape, including weak job growth and a surprisingly...
Dave Weigel Quits
And the Post accepts. A sad day for journalism. Ben Smith claims Dave is a liberal. Not from where I sit. He's a sane libertarian, which means he understood just how completely nuts the conservative movement and Republican party now are. But Ben is right about this:
There's no sign the Post really thought this through. Even as old-timers rankled at the new hires, the paper -- scrambling for relevance on the Internet -- seems not to have considered what the buzzy personnel moves would mean...
Israel's Long Campaign To Punish Gazans
Geoffrey Aronson writes that Gaza's humanitarian crisis began long before Hamas's victory:
Draconian restrictions on the entry of Palestinianlabor to Israel, the failure to establish a reliable export/import regimethrough Karni and other crossings, and the stillborn safe passage route linkingGaza with the West Bank--all signature elements of policy before June 2007 and indeed before Hamas' parliamentary victory in January2006--are the product of this strategic re-evaluation of Israeli...
Colbert Bait
A reader writes:
In keeping up with the bear thread, here is an actual sign (from Canada, of course) that you may like. Read the whole sign to enjoy.
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When Do We Leave?
On Afghanistan, I wrote that "Obama's pledge to start withdrawing troops in 2011 is now kaput ... Once Washington has decided to occupy a country, it will occupy it for ever." Max Boot says I was battling a strawman:
I hope Andrew is right — not because I or anyone else is in favor of
perpetually occupying Afghanistan (talk about a straw man!) — but
because the only way to prevail is to show the will to stay in the long
run.
My point is not that Max wants to stay there forever but that the...
Dissent Of The Day, Ctd
A reader writes:
Speaking of the Iraq surge, you write that:
I did not foresee the
in violence in Iraq - although I did foresee
the failure of the surge to achieve political reconciliation.The truth, I believe, is that the surge had little to do with the drop in violence. Part of the drop in violence is attributable to diplomatic gains in the Anbar province (where no extra troops were sent, incidentally), and most of the rest is simply due to the basic nature of ethnic conflict: it...
South Park Macho, Ctd
A reader writes:
Your post on South Park macho triggered a memory from Fallujah days in 05 – which I think was probably less than a year after Team America came out ... I'd ride around with the Marines throughout the city and frequently hear Fallujans referred to as 'durka durkas' or 'mohammad jihads.' i.e., 'check out that durka durka over there.' Everyone seemed to know the 'America...Fuck Yeah' song. I don't begrudge them for trying to find some way to laugh amidst what was increasingly an...
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