My comment: And I predict that many on the left and many Muslims will now be defending that foreign policy while if it was carried out by a Republican they would criticize it…..and the empire rolls on.

Of course, Mr. Douthat and myself could be wrong about our predictions.  Here’s to Hope.

It is it merely a coincidence that certain acts of genocide and mass killing generate more interest amongst liberal interventionists than others? After all, the queue for those clamouring for intervention in one of the worst internal conflicts in our life time seems to be rather small.

Support from a major senior political figure whose views and actions are responsible for killing an unquantifable number of people is Welcome News And Can Be Shouted Loudly From The Rooftops.

(Via Yglesias.)

“I would rather live in the dark ages under the Taleban than be subservient to any foreign power.”

Note his comments about foreign policy. While the foreign policies of the US are (rightfully) lambasted, what tended to be glossed over were the foreign policies of Muslim countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia:

Promising democracy, economic development, moderation and an end to training jihadi fighters who had become the army’s front line in projecting [Pakistan's] foreign policy and fuelling the wars in Afghanistan and the insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir, in reality the military continued to pursue the same old games.

By allowing the growth of Islamic extremism and the mushrooming of thousands of new madrassas in the country, the military considered economic and political stability an afterthought.