Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Dismantling McCain's Nuclear Policy

By Cernig



The folks at Democracy Arsenal have done some great work today, following publication of McCain's muddled vision on nuclear arms control. Here, here, here and here. Oh...and here...and here.



Some key lines:



"McCain decides that on North Korea it's actually better to be more extreme than George Bush."



"McCain�s basic plan is to slap the Russians smack across the face and then ask them for a favor.  Somehow I don�t think that will work."



"McCain apparently does not understand US policy toward Iran...we have not negotiated with Iran over their nuclear weapons program"



"This may be a wolf in sheep�s clothing, but it is still a wolf...McCain�s speech is a feeble attempt to try to tie all Republicans and Democrats into the failures of the Bush administration nuclear policies."



"One thing becomes clear in John McCain's speech - if he becomes President war with another country will be inevitable...The fact is he has no non-military strategy. His sole approach is to say to them: we demand you to stop doing what you are doing or else we will attack you and destroy you."



"If you like strategic drift, you'll love John McCain...[he] could be a disaster for American foreign policy."



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