While some neocons may hold up the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia as a "model" for American strategy in Iraq, the reality on the ground is proving them wrong (once again!): Hundreds of Somalis flooded into bullet-pocked boulevards to hurl rocks at the Ethiopian...
Well, yes, I was a little harsh on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois), putative presidential candidate and the fave rave of the Democratic net-roots, but then again I believe his position -- as expressed most recently in this "Letter to the President" -- is rapidly...
Remember the lost "weapons of mass destruction"? Saddam was supposed to be saving them up for one final blast of malevolence, but, somehow, they got misplaced in the shuffle. The ever-inventive Clifford May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is on...
Bob Novak on growing opposition to our crazed foreign policy of perpetual war inside the GOP [via Kos]: The debate inside the Republican Party is whether the mid-term election defeat was solely the result of unhappiness over Iraq or constituted deeper concern with the...
Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), a major power when it comes to forging our "bipartisan" foreign policy of global meddling, thinks we are at "war" -- "energy war" -- with Russia. Over at Dailykos.com, Jérôme Guillet, a Paris-based banker and an authority on...
The Army Times reports: The Center for American Progress proposed Wednesday to have a diplomatic rather than military surge in Iraq, and urged the new Democrat-controlled Congress to demand another vote authorizing military operations in Iraq if the number of U.S....
The Empire is in such dire need of new centurions that, as the Boston Globe reports, the Pentagon may go international in its recruiting methods [hat tip: Lew Rockwell]: The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the...
Reading this little news item is the equivalent of getting a Christmas card from the War Party. Read it, and weep.: A man who authorities believe was an Army Reservist just called up to serve in Iraq was fatally shot by police today after a standoff that began...
A conservative blogger comments on my recent column on the Litvinenko affair: It has become a very strange time indeed when I find myself in complete agreement with an anti-war liberal. In this case it is on the Litvinenko incident, and the argument laid out is an...
Worth reading -- Juan Cole on Gerald Ford's foreign policy. An excerpt: All presidents make errors, and some abuses occurred on Ford's watch, though they often were initiated by Kissinger. But Ford faced with no illusions the challenges of his era, of detente with the...
