The latest Weekly Standard opens with a remarkable editorial on Libya, offering some of the kindest words about the Obama administration you’ll ever read in the conservative media. It’s true that the Robert Kagan piece casts the fall of the Gaddafi regime as a triumph for “the United States and NATO.” And it isn’t until its seventh paragraph that President Obama’s name appears. But Kagan then declares that “the end of Qaddafi’s rule is a great accomplishment for the Obama administration and for the president personally.” He carries on in this vein, heaping praise on a president the Standard generally reviles and lampoons, while taking fellow Republicans to task:
Bill Kristol has, for the past twenty years, played neoconservative wise man with gradually diminishing effect. His major claim to fame was coming up with the recalcitrant strategy–vote no!–that turned Republicans like Bob Dole away from reforming health care in 1994. This was considered brilliant at the time. Ever since, he has been known for [...]
