We've lamented before that our weekends are pretty much just like the week. We get up, make coffee and get to work on one of the novels. Honestly it's not that healthy. Even a writer of our talent, depth, wit [Are you quite done? -Ed] needs a break. But we like working and don't like wasting that morning ju-ju. So yesterday we worked on a piece of Russian collusion instead of a novel. Felt good. We'll do the same today.
That piece of Russian collusion is about Rush Limbaugh (dittos be upon him). How much can the Ruskis really know about the man? We excitedly told our GRU handler we'd have the article to him tonight and he replied, 'Thanks, comrade. But we don't go back to work till Wednesday.' The article would be a little past it's best by date by then, no? Still if the Ruskis want it, we won't let news expiration bother us.
Regarding things we'd like to write about, here's Robert Kagan defending American internationalism. There's a bunch of Kagans, Don, Robert, Frederick, Kimberly (kinda cute), and we weren't sure which Kagan this was. At first we thought Robert Kagan was the Kagan that thought up the Surge in Iraq. No, that was brother Frederick, whose wife Kimberley helpfully wrote a history of the Surge. Anyway this statement on Iraq and Afghanistan is....appalling: 'That Americans refer to the relatively low-cost military involvements in Afghanistan and Iraq as “forever wars” is just the latest example of their intolerance for the messy and unending business of preserving a general peace and acting to forestall threats.' Yes. Do read the rest.
Read it but don't agree with I am all for withdrawing from NATO and the UN me and my friends have been fighting and dying in these forever wars it's our blood being shed or families suffering from members dying and taking care of the wounnded these policy makers never pay the cost locked up in their ivory tower never having to pay the piper for their decision it's us poor people who always have to do the dying it's time for other countries to step up to the plate and defend their own interests instead of relying on American troops all the time
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