More brief commentary

A small snip from a rather large Raimondo column from the libertarian/old conservative antiwar.com.

The American military no longer has anything to do with protecting this country from invasions, either natural or man-made. It is purely an instrument of naked aggression, only peripherally serving distinctly American interests, and then grudgingly and as a last resort. The announcement that troops will not be diverted from Iraq to Louisiana tells us everything we need to know about the War Party's priorities. As both New Orleans and Baghdad sink into complete chaos, only the latter is getting any serious attention from Washington.

The rest of it kind of sums up the current stories about the cuts in the Bush budget that were to go to the levees, and a rather lengthy blow at Jonah Goldberg for making jokes about the people in the superdome.(I does support his point, that there is a segment of the right who has become detached from the interests of the American people, but there's more important things to read right now.) But I thought this summed up this line of criticism pretty well.