The Washington Post reports that Iraqi morgues have revised the number of those killed in last week’s sectarian attacks to 1,300.
What a mess we have helped to make. It is no wonder that 48% of Americans want US troops pulled out of Iraq now.
Even William F. Buckley now says “It Didn’t Work,” and that [...]
Insight magazine, associated with the conservative Washington Times, is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney is going to “retire” “within a year.”
The reason? A “growing rift” between the OVP and the White House, the denouement of which will result in Cheney being “persuaded” to leave. And while the recent shooting incident underscored the growing [...]
“One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed.”
That’s from William F. Buckley Jr.’s Friday piece on National Review online. Buckley has made dissenting noises about Iraq before, but this time the judgment is unambiguous. Whatever one thinks of Buckley blaming the Iraqis (“Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable”) [...]
This past week we here at Balkanalysis.com featured a series of book reviews on the subjects of war, terrorism and grlobalization, focusing on works by several well-known contemporary thinkers. For those interested in learning more about these thought-provoking and compelling works, I provide the following links.
Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays
Slavoj Žižek, [...]
I know it’s in the highlights section today and all, but I really want to draw extra attention to the latest article by historian Gareth Porter, where he explains, “How the Neocons Sabotaged Iran’s Help on al-Qaeda,”
“The United States and Iran were on a course to work closely together on the war against al-Qaeda and [...]
I read Francis Fukuyama’s renunciation of neoconservatism with amusement, as I realized that he did not so much object to its goals (American empire, global “democrayc”) nor even its means (warfare, propaganda) but to its manner – i.e. unilateral, callous, arrogant. Jim Lobe’s excellent piece, highlighting the key points in Fukuyama’s apostasy, confirmed my initial [...]
Something a friend noticed while I was doing the morning carnage searches was that nowhere was a news story that mentioned the fate of the tombs inside the Golden Mosque. Not a single paper reported that they survived, which I figured would be an important item to mention, and which leads me to believe that [...]
“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians [...]
The old issue of whether journalists must reveal their sources has been highlighted in the “New Europe” ally Romania, a fond military backer of US mlitary adventures worldwide and alleged repository of secret prisons.
Although the SEEMO often become tiresome because their sole task seems to be protesting anything and everything, I include their press release [...]
An ex-Marine wrote me with his opinion of the Marine Corps:
“The Marine Corps is like a frat party in between the hard work. For the most part, they are irresponsible, alcoholic, sex addicts. The married Marines that I served with didn’t think twice about cheating on their spouses during deployments. And speaking of deployments, [...]
Today’s front page links to a Reuters story that claims Gen. Ratko Mladic, wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb military, was arrested earlier today. Reuters based their claim on reports by Serbian media. However, Serbian government denied the arrest actually took place, and even the Hague Inquisition has issued a denial and termed the story [...]
Francis Fukuyama distances himself from the neocons yet again, just in time to play guru to the next bunch of crusaders at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Now he’s a “Wilsonian realist,” whatever that is. It takes a Ph.D. to keep up with all the mutations of the War Party; luckily, we have one in Leon Hadar, [...]
