Fighting the Next War -

Fighting the Next War - Bill Gertz, on how the military is a avoiding the classic military blunder - fighting the last war.

Y'know - the one the media keeps doing (thinking Vietnam during the Gulf War, comparing the Gulf War to the Afghanistan war, and now using Afghanistan as a yardstick for removing Hussein).

Sum of All Fears - The evidence keeps piling up on the dangers of not ousting Hussein.

Coulter Takes New York - George Gurley on Ann Coulter v the New York Media Establishment.

Particularly hilarious:

Even though Ms. Coulter’s previous book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was a best-seller, the publication of Slander did not happen smoothly. At the end of last year, her editor at HarperCollins, Robert Jones, to whom Slander is dedicated, died suddenly of cancer. Then her book was killed by HarperCollins. It took her agent, Joni Evans, two months to find a publisher. Ms. Coulter was told that conservative books don’t sell. An editor at Doubleday informed her that "this book does not move the national dialogue forward," to which Ms. Coulter replied, "That’s funny, because I thought book publishers made money on the basis of how many books they sold."

Conservative books don't sell!

Remember - this was after conservatives ranging from the lightweight (Limbaugh, O'Reilly) to the very substantial (Dinesh D'Souza, Barbara Olson, John Lott) had all either topped the charts, or in the case of Lott, sold two orders of magnitude more than normal (for "More Guns, Less Crime", a very dense academic tome dominated by graduate-level statistical analysis of gun crime).

Perhaps the Doug Grow book would be a good bet...

Posted by Mitch at August 22, 2002 08:02 AM