Reuters/ABC The US Army has cancelled a $US327 million contract to equip the Iraqi army, citing technical problems with the bidding process. An Army official told reporters that new proposals for the work would be sought after a review found a huge spread in competing...
"The Saudi Paradox," by Michael Scott Doran, published in the Jan/Feb Foreign Affairs is a good source of background information on the likely motivation for this week’s anti-Shi’ite terrorist attacks (though I don't agree with all of his conclusions): "To better...
From the typewriter of--gasp!-- Bill Buckley himself: It is being claimed, ever more widely, that neocon policies are determined by the advantages they bring, manifest or putative, to the State of Israel. Patrick Buchanan, in the current American Conservative,...
The Passion: Redemption through Pain, Not Anti-SemitismYes, The Passion is a jolting shocker of a movie. And my immediate reaction as a white, middle-class, non-religious American was pretty much that of Tikkun: If Jesus was about love, why focus on the violence and...
