Jonah Goldberg posted an extremely suspect bit of hate mail on the Corner today. I'm not sure what this (possibly made-up) rant is supposed to demonstrate--that everyone who opposed the war is a psychotic anti-Semite?-- but I find it difficult to believe that Jonah...
Arthur Silber sees two options for Iraq policy: we can spend decades and billions in a futile attempt to turn Iraq into Switzerland (as the brilliant Jonah Goldberg once suggested), Or we can simply leave as quickly as possible -- which means that Iraq is likely to...
John Laughland on violence, fictional and real, in The Spectator: During the recent Anglo-American attack on Iraq, no seriously disturbing images of corpses or wounded bodies were broadcast, just as they had not been during the Kosovo war in 1999 or the Afghan war in...
Not that the Pulitzers mean anything, but notice all the buzz around Stars & Stripes lately? Well, there's another reference in this article on military voters squirming loose of the GOP claw. I pondered this possibility early last week (you heard it here first!), and...
As many as 40 countries are capable of making nuclear weapons, according to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei. In related news, Iraq is still not one of them.
As a supplement to Bill Kauffman's excellent "An Empire of Widows and Orphans," the posting of which at Hit & Run sparked a conflagration of stunning comparisons between moms and dads going to war in Iraq and moms and dads commuting to the office, I offer this article...
Linda Chavez on Townhall.com today: Iraq is not Vietnam, no matter how much Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and the other Democratic presidential wannabes would like to pretend it is. As despicable as Ho Chi Minh was, he did not pose a direct threat to the...
According to the FBI, 613,986 Americans were arrested in 2002 for mere possession of marijuana. Nathaniel Heatwole faces up to 10 years in prison for demonstrating how porous airport security remains. The National Park Service has blockaded an Alaska family in an...
Leave it to our favorite Canuck to look on the bright side of car bombings and missile attacks: See, all the terrorism in Iraq is good, cos it'll teach the Arabs to hate terrorism.
Just heard a Gen. McInerney on Fox News say that the U.S. has accomplished its primary goal in Iraq, that of ensuring the Iraqi citizens' Four Freedoms. He couldn't quite remember what those are, however, so he came up with "freedom of government, freedom of the...
