Who wears these pants anyway?

American foreign policy debate works like this.

Our so-called liberals fall all over themselves to prove they can be more vicious and reckless than our conservatives. They blow things up. They imprison people indefinitely (or just kill them) without due process. They work tirelessly to suppress free speech and political expression.

But no matter how hard they work at this it's always a losing proposition politically because the "branding" inevitably comes down to some idiotic fashion analogy. Since they're going to lose anyway, it would be nice if, for once, our so-called liberals would choose an actual liberal policy position hill on which to die.

Also someone with some more sophisticated fashion sense than mine needs to explain to me what the difference between "mom jeans" and "cowboy jeans" is. I suspect it's about as subtle and insignificant as the difference between our major political parties.

Josh Marshall needs to brush up on his geography

Obviously the Taliban is infiltrating Libya via Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan.

Apparently the world is safe for democracy this morning

Or maybe not. Well, probably not. Who can tell? Whatever it means, we can rely on the fact that Republicans, who hated the President's disastrous decision to commit military resources to Libya will now just as loudly denounce his disastrous decision not to do that soon enough. Well that and lots of people have been shot, burned, dismembered, etc. Was that worth something? It's anybody's guess, that's why it's fun!