Ridiculous. Absurd. Our Current Foreign Policy

Some might have noticed that I have added commentators Roger Ailes (not the FOXNEws executive) and The Atlantic's blogger Matt Yglesias to the blogroll line-up. Ailes I have discovered is both funny and incisive. Yglesias was a bit more troubling for me. Originally he supported the war. He's pretty moderate on most issues. Yet people whose views I both respect and agree with site him on a pretty regular basis. After reading quite a bit of what he has written, I have decided to break down and offer him here for your (and my) reading pleasure.

What tipped my preference for him? Digby highlights Yglesias' commentary on a Romney TV add on foreign policy:

The idea that we should be laying awake at night afraid that a group of at most several thousand people who control almost no territory or valuable military equipment might establish a universal caliphate or "collapse freedom loving nations like us" is ridiculous. Al-Qaeda's goals are absurd, and obviously so, and one ought to say so confidently. The fact that a relatively small group of people with lunatic goals can nevertheless knock down giant office buildings and murder a huge number of people is, indeed, something to be afraid of but not nearly on the grand geopolitical level Romney is postulating here.

I love the ability some people have of speaking the truth, and doing it both clearly, and with as few words as possible.