The NYT sunday magazine interview with John Yoo is one of the weirdest I’ve read.
Apologies for the very light blogging this week. In principle, I agree with Tyler Cowen that that a blog should be updated every day. I try to stick to that during the workweek (but don’t always succeed) but I was under the gun more than usual this week. So what’s been happening?
Some corners of the blogosphere are having a belly laugh over an op-ed co-authored the other day by John Yoo and John Bolton, published in the NYT. The column is styled as a warning to incoming president Obama to beware the temptation to use the office of the president to unilaterally entangle the US in a “dense web of treaties and international bureaucracies.” In a nutshell, it looks like they are concerned that Obama will go all Koyto or landmine-treatyish or something, thus tying one of America’s economic or military hands behind its back. And so they remind Obama that the Constitution requires that treaties gain the approval of 2/3 of the Senate for precisely this reason, viz.,