“There’s stuff that I’ve only seen in museums, in books or on the Internet,” said Sgt. 1st Class Nelson Castro, the 3-16th’s master gunner. “Most of this stuff is in fairly good shape.”
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Jonah Goldberg posted an extremely suspect bit of hate mail on the Corner today. I’m not sure what this (possibly made-up) rant is supposed to demonstrate–that everyone who opposed the war is a psychotic anti-Semite?– but I find it difficult to believe that Jonah “got quite a few [letters] like” the one posted, especially over [...]
According to Albert R. Hunt, writing in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (“It’s a Real War and It’s Not Going Well”), “Rather than an incentive to cooperate, the effect of the Bush pre-emptive doctrine on Iran and North Korea, the other members of the infamous axis of evil, clearly has been to expedite accumulation of weapons [...]
Arthur Silber sees two options for Iraq policy: we can spend decades and billions in a futile attempt to turn Iraq into Switzerland (as the brilliant Jonah Goldberg once suggested),
Or we can simply leave as quickly as possible — which means that Iraq is likely to become what it was not before our invasion and [...]
Check out this interview with Jim Lobe on the history of the neocons.
If you have problems with the streaming version, you can also download the .mp3 version.
Thanks to “Philip Dru,” whose Website has a great selection of interviews with notable libertarians and antiwar personalities, including yours truly.
John Laughland on violence, fictional and real, in The Spectator:
During the recent Anglo-American attack on Iraq, no seriously disturbing images of corpses or wounded bodies were broadcast, just as they had not been during the Kosovo war in 1999 or the Afghan war in 2001. CNN and the BBC had plenty of such pictures, but [...]
Not that the Pulitzers mean anything, but notice all the buzz around Stars & Stripes lately? Well, there’s another reference in this article on military voters squirming loose of the GOP claw. I pondered this possibility early last week (you heard it here first!), and now it seems even more plausible. Here’s one thing I [...]
Speaking of “OK, So Vietnam Wasn’t Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is“…
Arnold Beichman’s featured Opinon piece in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal is titled “Why I Miss the Cold War.”
“Am I being wholly rational when I say that I miss the Cold War?
“There was a time, say a decade ago, when I wouldn’t have [...]
As many as 40 countries are capable of making nuclear weapons, according to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei. In related news, Iraq is still not one of them.
Senate Confirms Bush Error on Indonesia Military Aid
Earlier this month President Bush said that Congress had “changed their attitude” toward resuming the US program to train Indonesia’s military, and was ready to “go forward with” funding the program.
Last week a senior official said that Bush misspoke.
Today the US Senate voted to block this military aid. [...]
As a supplement to Bill Kauffman’s excellent “An Empire of Widows and Orphans,” the posting of which at Hit & Run sparked a conflagration of stunning comparisons between moms and dads going to war in Iraq and moms and dads commuting to the office, I offer this article from Stars & Stripes:
AL KUT, IRAQ — [...]
Linda Chavez on Townhall.com today:
Iraq is not Vietnam, no matter how much Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and the other Democratic presidential wannabes would like to pretend it is. As despicable as Ho Chi Minh was, he did not pose a direct threat to the United States. The Vietnam War was part of the [...]
