This would simultaneously exclude the worst of the Biden team and the worst of the tankie progressives, while also avoiding people with fundamentally bad political instincts

DC think tanks have a lot of problems, many of which are implicated in this disaster, but lets be clear that it was really just FDD and its ilk that were pushing for war.

i think a lot about lewis lapham's description of the time he interviewed for the CIA in the 1950s www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/open-i...

Alternatively, a priest, an editor and a labor leader walk onto a stage…

It's like you dont even want to get invited to the next Bodrum forum.

I still believe the guys behind the Guerrilla Cartography atlases are hiding out in caves