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The Essence Of Cheneyism
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Michael Goldfarb channels John Yoo: To be clear, he’s not saying that it’s sometimes okay to kill a bad guy’s innocent children as part of a military operation directed against the guy. He’s saying it’s better to kill his children than it would be to avoid killing them. Goldfarb favors a near-dictatorial presidency with the power to detain and torture. John Yoo was even prepared to countenance crushing the testicles of the children of terror suspects as inherent in the constitutional powers of the ...

Targeting civilians
Political Animal — ... they can, in fact, be deterred, because it's not clear that they are rational, at least not like us. But to wipe out a man's entire family, it's hard to imagine that doesn't give his colleagues at least a moment's pause. Perhaps it will make the leadership of Hamas rethink the wisdom of sparking an open confrontation with Israel under the current conditions. Noting how odd it is to see "the ethics of Osama bin Laden being explicitly adopted by the organs of mainstream conservatism," Matt Yglesias explained , "To be clear, [Goldfarb's] not saying that it's sometimes okay to ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — The Public Record: FBI email says Bush authorized abuse of Iraqi detainees. Which brings us to the Orwell du Jour and the 'morality' of conservatism. No More Mister Nice Blog: You know, if I'm a hillbilly heroin dealer, and suddenly the Secret Service is hanging around because my son has impregnated the daughter of a VP candidate ... er, I might think of trying to find a new way to earn money. But hey, that's just me. Open Left: Hegemony On Steroids, Part One, and Part 2 Prometheus 6: It's a ...

The Unserious Left
Weekly Standard Blog — ... of possessing "the very same logic that leads Hamas to send suicide bombers to slaughter Israeli teenagers in pizza parlors and on buses and to shoot rockets into their homes. It's the logic that leads Al Qaeda to fly civilian-filled airplanes into civilian-filled office buildings." Another blogger accuses me of endorsing terrorist ethics, and the Atlantic's in-house gynecologist calls me a ...

Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly Standard Editors
Wonk Room — ... because of his belief in the utility of the murder of Palestinian children, had no problem comparing liberal pro-Israel activists to terrorists, writing that “J Street, like Hamas, has provoked a disproportionate response from the Jews.” ...