The Corner

Outed!

I see I was outed by Ramesh on The Corner yesterday. It’s not easy being a Leo-con, let me tell you, and Ramesh has only made my life more difficult. I understand the Claremont Institute is taking down its website. And I have already begun to shred and burn my files. Do you realize how long it takes to shred Aristotle’s Politics and Machiavelli’s Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy? And then there are the codes. How are we going to communicate among ourselves while lying to the uninitiated without the codes? And soon, I expect that Seymour Hersh will be knocking on my door. Thanks a lot, Ramesh. On to Teheran!

Mackubin Thomas Owens is senior national-security fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia, editing its journal Orbis from 2008 to 2020. A Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Vietnam War, he was a professor of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College from 1987 to 2015. He is the author of US Civil–Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain.
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