The Scooter Letters

What does it say about your own character when your character witnesses include Henry Kissiner, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and the "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth"?

Some of his fans are not of low character; they are just numbingly pompous:

Dear Judge Walton,

I am the literary editor of The New Republic, a position that I have proudly held since 1983. I am tne author of books about religious philosophy and history, and modern identity, and nuclear strategy, and also of many essays on political and cultural subjects. I am in no sense a neoconservative, as many of my neoconservative adversaries will attest. I am, to the contrary, the kind of liberal whom many neoconservatives like to despise. (This is fine with me.)

I trouble you with these internecine details of the intellectual wars because I do not want my expression of admiration for Scooter Libby to be mistaken for ideological solidarity, or to be dismissed as the testimonial of a political comrade. What I want to say to you about Libby, as you consider his sentencing, is instead the heartfelt effusion of a grateful friend.

(And speaking of pompous, check out Richard Perle's fey monogrammed stationary.)

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