February 05, 2003
Why Bulgaria? From William Saletan's
Why Bulgaria?
From William Saletan's excellent Iraq piece:
But on the question of deadlines, Powell comes up short. Only three of the 15 members support a specific deadline (the United States has already given up; Britain and Bulgaria want a decision by Feb. 14), and only two more favor an imminent deadline in principle, on the grounds that further inspections are pointless unless Iraq changes its attitude.
Britain, okay, I understand. But when did Bulgaria become our second closest ally on the security counsel? And why? And can somebody tell the Bulgarians I know?
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A 2-04-post (the archive button doesn't work) from Advocate's Devil comments:
...it is refreshing to see that the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper that is not exactly a shill for conservative causes, has published an editorial in support of Sutton's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. A lot has been written for and against President Bush's judicial nominees, but most of those arguments break down along traditional fault lines of liberal and conservative. It is therefore significant when a liberal editorial page like the Tribune's breaks ranks with leftist orthodoxy.
(emphasis mine). Weird. Is he reading the same Tribune I read as a kid? Has the Tribune changed dramatically since then? I don't know. I can tell you that since 1988, the Tribune editorial pages have favored Bush I, Bush I, Dole, and Bush II over the Democratic candidates. A more careful analysis of the paper's politics is beyond my expertise, but in general, it's no shock when the Tribune breaks from "leftist orthodoxy".
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