The Belgravia Dispatch: In-House News (Cont'd)

June 29, 2007

In-House News (Cont'd)

Still busy in 'Old' Europe, and so the latest blog hiatus looks to continue a bit longer. This reminded me that, last time I had to stop writing in this space for a month or two, I had returned to a blogosphere where many of my favorite bloggers had suddenly (or so it seemed, at least) hitched up with magazines. You had Matt Yglesias and Ross Douthat shacking up at the Atlantic (joining Andrew Sullivan and along with James Fallows and Marc Ambinder, I think collectively making up the best overall blog roster of any U.S. magazine), Clive Davis had landed at the Spectator, Blake Hounshell was at F.P., Glenn Greenwald decamped to Salon, Scott Horton dutifully began chronicling varied horribles at Harper's, Cunning was penning pieces at AmCon, and now, last but certainly not least, I see that George Packer is writing from new blog-digs at the New Yorker. When I can, I'm reading all these guys, and I'd point readers still popping by B.D. during this slow-down to re-direct their browsers to any and all of these various sites (if they aren't already), not to mention the newly revamped American Scene. As for this space, I'll be back as soon as able...

Posted by Gregory at June 29, 2007 12:53 PM

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Thanks for the update. Can't wait to read your observations about how Cheney has been a major force determining U.S. foreign policy.

Posted by: Quiddity at June 29, 2007 03:36 PM | Permalink to this comment

Who knew the Stone & Jackson SupremE Courts was following a Schmittian model; (Byrnes, i'd agree more about) ex parte Qurin, Eisentrager, et al) I know Lt. Commdr. Swift, seems to have a blind spot on Qurin, re his Vanity Fair interview; amicus briefs relied on on court martial case of US naval personnel. The whole
Seton Law study; of Defense Department detainees, I take with a grain of salt, with the actions of fmr Taliban commanders, Saudi ' relief workers' like Nail Fahd, and that Chechen fellow involved in the Nalchik assault, who was 'terminally appealed' by the Russian government, this week. You don't mean the poor 'Tipton three' whose press agent, is busy whitewashing the atrocity perpetrated by KSM upon Daniel Pearl; through deliberate obscurity. The fact that the tribunal would not convict the 'assailant' of Christopher Speer, for what reason; The Taliban was the legally recognized government of Afghanistan; at least by KSA, the UAE and Pakistan

Apparently Lincoln was too a follower of Schmitt,(Merryman, Milligan); 70 years ago, before Schmitt was even born; It must have been his predecessor in the Bismark regime: 'issues of the ay will not be settled at the conference tables but in the streets with steel' That's why Krugman, Nader & Sweeney were all sent to Gitmo, or when that fills up Bagram, right. (Thats a close parallel to Vallendingham and Debs respectfully) That analogy alone, should have striken some editor as 'ill advised' So a white shoe attorney for the White supremacist equivalent of a madrassa leader is publishing at Salon; wonderful; A Wall Street player who warned us not to worry about Chavez, Hezbollah. is writing at the
masthead of a WW2 disapproving Holocaust denier, and a down
at the heels, protege of the Colonel's junta; who was engaged in the seat of the Castro regime, as I recall. A seemingly honorable figure who takes a former astute academic on the Shia question, viewpoint in examining the Iraq initiative ; who takes us to task for rightfully being negligent in not facilitating the transit of those who did help us. but suggests a strategy that could bringing every Sunni malcontent stranded in Damascus or Amman;due that nation's use of the Mukharabat and hawalas. More analogies between Iraq and Vietnam, rather than the Phillipine campaign, the various campaigns on the NorthWest frontier; or even aspects of Boer war or the Indian wars.

Posted by: narciso at July 1, 2007 01:56 AM | Permalink to this comment

Would it be asking too much for Narciso to clean up his grammar? I mean, at this point it's impossible even to tell WHAT he's trying to rave.

Posted by: Bruce Moomaw at July 1, 2007 04:03 AM | Permalink to this comment

Amen to that, Bruce.

Is there even a word for a writing style where one uses more semi-colons than vowels?

Posted by: flitterbic at July 1, 2007 06:59 PM | Permalink to this comment

Greg,

Hope you get the chance to blog again or at least before the president changes his commute of Leader Cheney's boy, Scooter, to an outright pardon.

Posted by: John P. Normanson at July 2, 2007 11:28 PM | Permalink to this comment

Looks like the Spam Orcs have discovered your citadel, Greg.

Posted by: Bruce Moomaw at July 6, 2007 06:50 AM | Permalink to this comment

thx bruce. duly deleted.

Posted by: greg djerejian at July 6, 2007 09:50 AM | Permalink to this comment

Hear, hear, Narciso. It does take careful listening; I've improved in my understanding of him over the last couple of years. Is he ever wrong?
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Posted by: kim at July 7, 2007 03:12 PM | Permalink to this comment

For you beginners, pursue ex parte Quirin.
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Posted by: kim at July 7, 2007 03:14 PM | Permalink to this comment

For Narciso, remember, it's Nomad's Land.
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Posted by: kim at July 7, 2007 03:19 PM | Permalink to this comment

Narciso, I like how you spell Quirin. They don't use the 'u' after the 'q' in Arabic transliteration, do they?
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Posted by: kim at July 8, 2007 01:50 PM | Permalink to this comment