Go get 'em

Israel, ignore the moral relativists and pound Hezbollah into the ground.

Beginning of the End?

I hope Israel pounds Hezbollah into non-existence after their act of war.

The Big Dig

$14 billion paid for this

Go Massachusetts!

Making no sense

Andrew Sullivan's got more Bush on the Brain, this time taking George Bush to task for his stance on North Korea. It's basically a free-for-all for Sullivan, who's taken to calling President George Bush King George. Oh, that British humor. So droll.

Not that his Sunday Times article makes the least bit of sense. His basic premise is that the Bush administration policy, the supposed "1% Doctrine", is incoherent because it's not treating North Korea like it did Iraq. However, Sullivan obviates that argument himself by noting:

You can, of course, make an argument that removing Saddam came first precisely because it was doable and he was less of a threat. You can also argue that a multilateral approach works best with North Korea, because its neighbours are far more vulnerable than the US and have a greater interest in containment.

Wow, you think? I'm sure that the South Koreans are interested in being obliterated with their capital within artillery distance of the DMZ. The 1% Doctrine is defined by Sullivan:

The Cheney argument, as outlined in Ron Suskind’s book-length brief for the CIA, The One Percent Doctrine, is clear. It is that if there is a 1% chance that terrorists can get access to WMDs, the US, after 9/11, must treat that chance as a 100% certainty.

However, it doesn't mean you go off an invade any country that has that 1% chance. The result is that you get rid of the threat. How you do it is not dictated by that definition. Of course, Sullivan gives no solutions on how to make the North Korea situation go away, nor does he offer a suggestion on how the 1% Doctrine should operate in this situation. Instead, he then changes the subject into a excorciation of Bush on his handling of Iraq.

Sullivan is a smart man, but whenever the topic gets around to George Bush, he suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome, and his arguments get that much more hyperbolic and hysterical. It's sad really. Bush does have problems, and I'm not blind to that, but it doesn't help when you're making arguments that make the man look positively smart and rational in comparison.