As I have written about over and over and over again, the purpose of the military should be to defend the country. That's it. One would think that the Secretary of Defense would know that. Yet, in a recent speech before the Association of the United States Army,...
US Still Backs Iran in Iraq
All the cool stuff I'm not allowed to write about on Antiwar.com goes to Taki's Top Drawer. The Huckster bloviates about education, why Rudy's off his game (hurrah!), Alan Keyes is either high or nuts, the Paulista rebellion against the neocons at National Review,...
Just coming across the wire: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent $16,000 on flowers this year. Of course, not one was strewn on the grave of a soldier who fell in the senseless war in Iraq she and her party have continued to fund. According to her office, all...
Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. While hard-line neo-conservatives associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal editorial...
Iran Lies Shift and Back Again
US Has Abused Iraq for a Long Time
I read this article and failed to find a satisfactory explanation of the statement in the synopsis that "the U.S. troop buildup has brought down violence." I see where Sunni groups have decided that al-Qaeda was -- for now -- a worse foe than the US occupation. I see...
Quite tragic. CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran with its special "We Were Warned – Iran Goes Nuclear." The two-hour show was to air December 12. Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That...
A recent short piece in The Nation, "Ron Paul's Roots," by Christopher Hayes, has this eye-popping denunciation of Rep. Paul by the unbearably pompous Brink Lindsey, a Cato Institute "scholar" and recently appointed vice president for research, "He doesn't strike me...
