From this week in Antiwar.com, seven questions for the warmongers: 1. What is "harassment & interdiction"? 2. How much mustard gas would it take to level a city? 3. Is any nation on earth safe from the president's new and improved doctrine of preemption? 4. Why do we...
Brendan O'Neill plucks some aged Belgian babies off of bayonets in this outstanding piece on Saddam's fabled people shredder. Among the story's propagators who have yet to comment on O'Neill's article are Glenn Reynolds (see also this) and National Review's James S....
Hedy Epstein, 79, of St. Louis, Missouri is a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust educator and longtime civil rights and peace activist. Her story is featured in the Academy Award winning documentary, "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport." In 1939, I...
Jen Banbury makes a visit to the Green Zone, headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Hunkered down in their weird security zone, the Americans who run Iraq have almost no contact with the country or its people. Though I can see some of...
Renaud Girard of Le Figaro (France) comments on the wisdom of miltary intervention in the crisis in Haiti, a former French colony. Before invading a country, it is appropriate to answer several questions. What type of social and political organization is to be...
In the frenetic rush to war, much was said about Iraq's alleged ongoing bioterror programs. Many of us sat spellbound and shocked (and for more than just one reason) as Colin Powell stood before the United Nations and itemized the threats facing the world's population...
In order to maintain troop levels in Iraq, stop-loss and stop-movement orders are preventing those who would choose to leave the military from doing so, adding to the strain on families where both husband and wife are soldiers and facing separations of as long as two...
French General Philippe Morillon, whose intervention saved the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from defeat in 1993 and helped establish it as a "safe area" for civilians (and the 28th Infantry Division of the Bosnian [Muslim] Army), made a fatal error last week. He let...
I suppose the oft-bleated excuse that "9/11 changed everything" will be blamed for why the man who warned against Big Brother has become Big Brother. Here's then-Sen. John Ashcroft's thoughts on the Internet and the Bill of Rights back in 1997. There is a concern that...
In today's "Best of the Web," James Taranto pokes fun at Mikhail Gorbachev for finally admitting the obvious about the Soviet war on Afghanistan; now, I'll poke fun at Taranto for failing to see the obvious parallels: The Soviet Union's 10-year invasion of Afghanistan...
