Buckley Hearts Osama

Buckley Hearts Osama

From the first item of National Review‘s "The Week" section, 2/13/06:

 

In Osama’s latest tape, he touts an obscure left-wing American book and borrows lines from Michael Moore. We’re beginning to think that when we find him, he’ll be carrying a Nation tote bag.

 

Yep, there’s no accounting for taste. But when Private Jonah Goldberg enlists for combat and finally nabs Osama, inside that stylish tote bag he’ll also find this inspirational quote by none other than National Review patriarch William F. Buckley: "Senator Kerry said, on Sept. 20 [2004], that knowing what we know now, we’d have done better not to have invaded [Iraq]. I think he’s right."

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From the first item of National Review‘s "The Week" section, 2/13/06:

 

In Osama’s latest tape, he touts an obscure left-wing American book and borrows lines from Michael Moore. We’re beginning to think that when we find him, he’ll be carrying a Nation tote bag.

 

Yep, there’s no accounting for taste. But when Private Jonah Goldberg enlists for combat and finally nabs Osama, inside that stylish tote bag he’ll also find this inspirational quote by none other than National Review patriarch William F. Buckley: "Senator Kerry said, on Sept. 20 [2004], that knowing what we know now, we’d have done better not to have invaded [Iraq]. I think he’s right."

Snap!

President Bush’s repeated jabs at isolationism in his State of the Union Address may have also been directed at the Buckleyites. "As a boy," writes The New Republic, "Buckley named his first sailboat Sweet Isolation."

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