A Forced Group Hug
At least inside the Beltway, Iraq is opening fissures in the solid bloc that is–or was–the Republican Party and its conservative base. Members in the House blasted their Republican colleagues for holding too many hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, accusing them of undermining the war effort in a bid for publicity. Long-dormant GOP isolationists re-emerged, with the usual cicadas–Patrick Buchanan and columnist Robert Novak–joined by Donald Devine, vice chairman of the American Conservative Union....