Well the first part is the left's narrative of conservatism, and this is kind of the way, of the portrayal in history books. Now Iran Contra and
Lebanon are linked but not in the usual way. Since we were mostly
focused on the Soviet threat, we gave scant attention to the proxy
fight waged by Iran with Hezbollah, Since we did not go after Mugniyeh
in that way, we were limited in how we could maneuver in that landscape

Well Galbraith is Canadian, as blinkered as the Douglas clan, whose last relative in Kiefer Sutherland. The more famous of the former, was
a roommate of Benazir Bhutto, supporter of the Kurds, who parlayed
that into a very profitable sideline, while damning the rest of the Iraq
initiative

If you think about, Progresssivism was been offered as the salvation for all the sins (slavery, poverty, a sense of mindless conformism)
that they see the Constitution facilitating. Now take TR please ( rimshot) he broke up Standard OIl, yet they were able to regroup under
the Achincarry Agreement and ultimately ARAMCO. In that sense the solution was ultimately worse than the malady

Now CK, Olbermann rarely had those numbers, yet he was taken seriously, when he did those rants on the MCA, on the 'civil war'
in Iraq, on the general's mutiny (Baptiste, Eaton, et al) as did his
colleagues transitioning from Air America/Radio to TV (MSNBC)