Brooks on Bush's "Economic Conference"

David Brooks usually drives me up a wall with his frustrating pseudo-analyses that always read like insipid, transparently lame conservative apologia. I figure if the New York Times is going to go through the effort to have token conservatives on their staff, they can actually be strong ones, and by that I don't mean LOUD ones, a la Coulter or Limbaugh (or maybe it's asking too much to have someone who can actually in all honestly intellectually defend current conservatism). Safire, God knows, shot his credibility out of the water years ago, and is now stepping down in any case. And Brooks far too often, on the Times op-ed page, seems to be the conservative version of the liberal role Allan Colmes plays against the gale force of blowhard Sean Hannity on Fox.

So an article like this from Brooks is encouraging to say the least (of course, am I just saying that because he's being somewhat disparaging of politics in general?.... hmmm....)

By the way, if you're wondering what a "loya jirga" is (I did), you can find out here.