In the pantheon of columnists I follow, my two go-to guys for war-related stuff are a liberal (Fred Kaplan) and a conservative (Daniel Larison). Neither thinks any good will come from our new air strikes against Syria though Larison seems to me to be the more outraged of the two…
- Read this Kaplan column and then this one and then this one.
- And then read this Larison column and then this one and then especially this one.
- And if you want to get terrified of what may result, read Matt Taibbi.
- In other news, we have a wide array of columns about what an incredible failure Paul Ryan was as Speaker of the House…unless, of course, all that matters to you is that rich people pay less in taxes no matter what it does to the deficit and the social safety net. Read Matthew Yglesias, Tara Golshon, Jamelle Bouie and (again) Daniel Larison.
- Joe Conason thinks Trump is about to do something very bad to Veterans.
- And Martin Longman finds eerie similarities between Richard Nixon in his last days in office and Donald Trump in these days in office.
With all this going on, it's easy to forget that the re-trial of Bill Cosby is well under way. They're up to the part where various alleged victims tell what Cosby did to them and Cosby's lawyers try to brand those accusers as liars and opportunists. Coming soon: The part where Cosby is portrayed as an old, sick blind man who did so much good for so many that it would be cruel to send him to prison and therefore to his death.