ADVANTAGE: OXBLOG!!: I’m at the
ADVANTAGE: OXBLOG!!: I’m at the point now where if I see a Jimmy Carter New York Times op-ed, I know it will make everything else on the op-ed page loook erudite and well-reasoned. [Example?–ed. It took me a few hours to figure out the problem with Tom Friedman’s piece today. He can’t seem to reconcile ...
ADVANTAGE: OXBLOG!!: I'm at the point now where if I see a Jimmy Carter New York Times op-ed, I know it will make everything else on the op-ed page loook erudite and well-reasoned. [Example?--ed. It took me a few hours to figure out the problem with Tom Friedman's piece today. He can't seem to reconcile the two sides of his brain. One half wants the U.S. to act humbly and within the tight strictures of international law and multilateralism. The other half wants the U.S. to be aggressively promoting democratic regime changes. Given the UN's makeup, there's no way to reconcile those aims.] Josh Chafetz has a proper fisking of today's Carter nonsense. The day might soon come when a blog should be set up only for Carter-fisking. As a public good for the rest of the blogosphere.
ADVANTAGE: OXBLOG!!: I’m at the point now where if I see a Jimmy Carter New York Times op-ed, I know it will make everything else on the op-ed page loook erudite and well-reasoned. [Example?–ed. It took me a few hours to figure out the problem with Tom Friedman’s piece today. He can’t seem to reconcile the two sides of his brain. One half wants the U.S. to act humbly and within the tight strictures of international law and multilateralism. The other half wants the U.S. to be aggressively promoting democratic regime changes. Given the UN’s makeup, there’s no way to reconcile those aims.] Josh Chafetz has a proper fisking of today’s Carter nonsense. The day might soon come when a blog should be set up only for Carter-fisking. As a public good for the rest of the blogosphere.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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