Hypocrisy is the playground of the powerfu

* blinky: "second-guessing is not a strategy"
first-guessing - now that's a strategy

* athenae, in a masterful display of snark: "Mercifully, we seem to have a lot of dry powder around, so at the very least there's that." (link)

* "But I've come to think the over-armament of the United States, and the concomitant belief we can have a military option in dealing with almost every global problem, actually poses a threat to our well-being... I think the idea of America as the world's only superpower – an idea that is the consequence of our comparably huge amount of military spending – actually detracts from our national security." (link)

* xymphora: "Hypocrisy is the playground of the powerful." (link)
nice one!

* " Bin Laden was a self-mythologized figure of no historic standing until George W. Bush designated him America's equal by defining 9/11 as an act of war to be met with war, instead of a crime to be met with criminal justice. But this over-reaction, so satisfying at the time to the wounded American psyche, turned into the war for which the other party simply did not show up. Which is, of course, why we are blasting a substitute Iraq to smithereens." (link)