digamma.net - notes

If any Cato Institute employee had to be tarred in a payola scandal, I would have preferred nearly anyone but Doug Bandow.

Naturally the left is happy to see someone from the pro-corporate Cato Institute shown up as corrupt. But I think if a lot of them took a minute to read some of his writings, they’d find very little to disagree with. Most of Bandow’s writings were advocating a sensible foreign policy based, first and foremost, on peace. Yes, dirty hippy pot-smoking bra-burning peace. That thing Democrats like but aren’t supposed to talk about.

And so we get responses like this (approvingly linked by Eschaton) :

And this brings into question which other of his opinions might have been for sale. Was he for instance paid by the Serbian government or its American friends for his advocacy against NATO intervention in the Balkans? These columns really stand out for their pro Serb line in extremis. Is he on their payroll too?

You know, there was another US intervention Bandow opposed recently. I guess he was on the payroll of Saddam Hussein too. At last, Laura Rozen and Glenn Reynolds agree on something - when you oppose my party’s war, you’re on the other side.