[weegee]

I started to wonder -- is my opposition to the US action in the Middle East, however noble and well-intentioned it seemed to me, actually playing into the hands of America’s enemies, strategic adversaries, and economic competitors?

This cuts to the heart of the matter of what a "useful idiot" is. One who provides aid and comfort to your enemies even if it is under a misguided notion of being right. "Red dupe" is another term although it is seldom used these days.

[beckysueb]

This is why I love conservatives. They are so down to earth and plain spoken. The guy who wrote this article lost me after the 1st paragraph. What the heck is he trying to say in simple terms?

[dennisw]

bttttttttttttttt

[prion]

Yeesh. This guy has all the intellectual steadiness of a pinball. Welcome to our side...I guess.

[Hardastarboard]

This moronic, over-wrought, over-wordy rant makes listening to Aunt Margaret's hour long discourse over why she left her first husband thirty years ago seem positively riveting. No wonder he gets $25 per article. With this guy's inability to be concise, he's working for about .0000000025 per word.

[JasonC]

He's wrong, he hasn't got his credibility back. He never had any, and he still doesn't. I am glad he has seen the error of his previous ways, and he is able to write english sentences. But he can't seem to think his way out of a paper bag. It is not a very exacting qualification to have not been an idiot about this stuff for the past two years, and he doesn't clear even that bar.

[1rudeboy]

I simply have to read this later. Chomsky, Raimondo, dare I say Buchanan? What a group of All-Stars.

[Drango]

For a guy who claims to be from the right, he sure spends a lot of time in the enemy camp.

[elli1]

I'm underwhelmed by this totally & hopelessly confused little wad of silly putty. He ends the article by saying he has his credibility back. What a guffaw. Here's a little piece of career advice, Tony buddy--try your hand at penning mindless sit-com scripts; the political pool is too deep for you.

[mylife]

Jatsuzz!! That was a painful twisted tale of woe!

[wgeorge2001]

An anti war right? HA. More like a seminar(neo con liberals) right.
I reckon.

[tdadams]

Maybe this guy is sincere, but a few things strike me.

1) He's 30-something and just changed his ideology a few months ago. What and when will his next flight of fancy change him into?
2) One of the predominant points of his article seems to be emphasizing how influential he is.
3) Perhaps he's had this change of heart because, by his own admission, the leftist stuff he was writing didn't pay very well. Maybe he's seeing a better paycheck writing for the right.

[ChadGore]

there's an anti-war right ?

[Lee'sGhost]

"Why I Left the Anti-War Right"

What the hell is that? I didn't know such a thing existed.

[Poohbah]

But in the end, it wasn’t Ismail Royer that hastened my departure from Antiwar.Com. It was the suspiciously overexposed Groucho-Leninist Michael Moore.

BWAHAHA!

[hellinahandcart]

I don't know if he's as tapped into the "antiwar right" as he claims. He professes admiration for Pat Buchanan, and then can't get the name of his 2000 running mate right. It was a lady named Ezola Foster. I believe he was endorsed by Fulani or made an appearance with her or something, but this is like saying Dean's running mate was Al Gore .(Question: are there no editors at Front Page who could have caught this one?)

And what more can be said about a guy for whom no "alarms" were ringing about Justin Raimondo until November of 2003? Hoo boy...

[Publius6961]

I played into the can-you-top-this? mentality common among polemicists of the political extremes in the US. But the self-satisfaction among those who opposed the war in Iraq (whether from the right or left) and trumpeted every piece of bad news about the Administration or US soldier movements -- as if missteps validated their position! – began to strike me as misguided at best, and treasonous at worse.

This fellow is that rare bird, capable of having an epiphany based on what he has learned that he can't ignore, and the realization that people like Justin Raimondo suffer from a deep-rooted, irrational and (as yet) unexplainable mental illness.

[dirtboy]

I moved over to Antiwar.com to write a weekly column for them at $25 per pop.

We can see what the marketplace of ideas thinks of Antiwar.com.

[jokar]

read this later

[westerfield]

Talk about being a flake, it appears that this writer has decided to change his political ideology for the upteenth time because he received a snotty little note from Justin Raimondo refusing to run one of his columns. I cant help but wonder if his defection to Front Page Mag was due to their higher pay scale as much as anything else.