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I can't speak for Volokh, but if you're really desperate for pro-war blogging, there's always my blog. You can accuse me of anything but silence on that issue.
I guess you'll figure out where to go when you wake up.
Sorry, I don't know "the elementary rules of courtesy." Maybe you could teach them to me. Lesson #1 might be where in "the rules" a "yawn" as a response to someone's comment is the appropriately courteous reaction. Can I call you Justin, BTW? Do the rules of courtesy allow that? I mean, gosh, I hardly know you, and here we are on a first-name basis already.
Anyway, I guess since your reputation precedes you, I figured you were such a brilliant investigative reporter that you'd be able to look to the right of this blog and scroll a bit and find me. But maybe you're too tired for the exertion. Also, as it happened, I was writing to people who knew my blog, so it seemed superfluous to give them a URL.
OK, gotta go. Have to "get over myself". Might take a while.
All this over not getting a URL from someone? Weirder. ;)
Ok, back at my desk with high-speed goodness, I can now offer a better reply to Mark and David. Here’s what I wrote back in November about pulling out asap: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/8462.html
And here’s one of the longer entries discussing the war: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7333.html
Irfan's is the HNN Blog, Theory & Practice, Justin.
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Just Ken
All this over giving someone a url? Weird ...
Aeon, I didn't have you in mind when I wrote my original post. To be frank, I'd forgotten that you were in favor of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Although many of those supporting this invasion would not describe themselves as "neolibertarians", many are happy to embrace this less than felicitous phrase.
Yeah, you're so famous that everybody knows where to find your obscure blog. Get over yourself, Irfan, and acquaint yourself with the elementary rules of courtesy.
Interestingly, the leading war blogger, Glenn Reynolds, voted for Harry Browne in 2000! As they say, what was he thinking?!
"But if you're really desperate for pro-war blogging, there's always my blog."
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How about providing a url?
Ok, I'll bite, although I resist the loaded description "joined the chorus," and I have no idea what you mean by, nor have I ever referred to myself as, a neolibertarian.
I think the administration is making a botch of things, and they ought to pull out immediately. I said so months ago here on L&P - I can't easily find the archived post because I'm home today (=slow dial-up connection), but tomorrow (in the office) perhaps I'll dig it up.
Ever hopeful, perhaps they're waiting to see whether the situation improves for the U.S. administration. In view of their active blogging on Iraq back in 2003, I think they do owe their readers an update. Have any of them revised their views in any way? Inquiring minds want to know.
There's a larger, related point as well. And that's to ask other self-identified libertarians and classical liberals who supported the U.S. invasion how they now see the situation. I'm thinking of people like Brink Lindsey and those who call themselves neolibertarians who joined the chorus for war.