Ah, Afghanistan. The good war. The poster child for regime change. Well, looks like the poster child is a bad seed. From the NYT:Since beginning work last month, the country's Central Poppy Eradication Force, an American-trained group, has destroyed less than 250...
President Bush was asked whether the release of the photos of Saddam would incite violence: Well, you asked me whether or not that would inspire people. You know, I don’t think a photo inspires murderers. I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and...
This must be lifted from the works of Suleyman Ahmad:Oh there are people who will tell you we have nothing to fear from space (hereafter to be known as "stupid people"), but they haven't seen the alien face of the terrorist threat: Moon Islamists, Martian Wahhabists,...
Justin Raimondo appeared on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Friday morning. He discussed the situation in Uzbekistan. He appeared live early this morning -- the show is available today on satellite TV and is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website. A...
So sue me: people who riot and kill and swear jihad against an entire country because some drooling gap-toothed Lynndie-type flushed a wad of paper that had religious stuff written on it down a toilet are A-N-I-M-A-L-S. I don't care if it was their holy book. I don't...
Your Antiwar.com review of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith: I liked it. Turns out wars are the death of republics, and the Emperor does a great Yushchenko impression. In other news, the U.S. Air Force is planning to build a Death Star.
I can hardly wait for a certain DC liberventionist to explain this away:Ukraine's Orange Revolution was an exhilarating and joyful event. It was a classical liberal revolution for democracy and freedom and against corruption. Viktor Yushchenko became the...
The Australian Daily Telegraph reports: Mock executions – in which a prisoner is made to believe his death is imminent – are expressly prohibited by the US army's interrogation policy. The details were described in documents sought by the American Civil Liberties...
Glenn Reynolds actually has a worthwhile insight! (Sandwiched between two slabs of baloney, of course.) On the childlike chickenhawkery of Andrew "Second Thoughts" Sullivan:When Andrew was a champion of the war on terror, writing about martial spirit and fifth columns...
Oakland, CA: TheatreFIRST is producing a rare revival of playwright Robert Holman’s abstract portrait of the lingering effects of war, Making Noise Quietly. In three one-act plays, Holman gives playgoers a glimpse at war’s more rarely acknowledged consequences and...
