Max Speak, you listen!

Not that we needed one, but now we have a U.S. counterpart (Via Timberite Chris Bertram) to the "Euston Manifesto," the latter a British project to put a liberal face on neocon ambitions....

The "now ossified and unproductive political polarization of American politics rooted as it is in the conflicts of the 1960s" looks pretty good to me. After all, on the two major pivots of this polarization -- Vietnam (military intervention) and race (cf. Katrina) -- national policy is still in the shitter....

All must concede that terrorism is not an easy problem to solve. The dilemma for this project is the implicit advocacy of a facile and short-sighted resort to force. Upholding liberal values, edifying in and of itself, will be no protection from the whirlwind reaped by yet another U.S. military adventure in the Middle East.

People dismiss the politics of the 1960s, but until Democrats start opposing aggressive war from the beginning and not just when it turns to shit on them, the lessons of Vietnam have not been learned.

And anyone who argues that racism has been solved in America needs to be slapped. Hard.