Resurgent Taliban

A recent Time: Asia article details the "undefeated" Taliban: Coalition spokesman Colonel Rodney Davis agrees: "The coalition has degraded what was a formidable force." True enough. But the Taliban have taken what was left of their own army and morphed it into a...

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“Bogus From the Beginning: Justin Raimondo”

From Justin's newest column: It wasn't just the possession of WMD that would single Iraq out as the target of our post-9/11 rage: it was the possibility – indeed, given the tone of the administration's rhetoric, the inevitability – that Osama bin Laden would get his...

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…like Kosovo?

The ”Baghdad Blogger” is a window into the occupation of Iraq. His 7-12 entry discusses a new feature of his Baghdad camp: brown and root is on the ground…this always boost soldiers spirits…when those guys show up things start getting nice quick…they start putting up...

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I’ll let you decide

Apparently, those at NRO have an explanation for everything, which in this case conveniently downplays the increasing casualty count in Iraq. Victor David Hanson of NRO writes: We are winning this war. But we should never forget, because of our amazing success so far,...

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Whoa!

The National Review ran a column against military intervention. Something must be in the water at NR headquarters.

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WWI…why?

According to Pat Buchanan, Wilson entered WWI not to “make the world safe for democracy” but because the former president “wanted a seat at the peace table, where he believed his nobility and superior intellect, and American idealism, could triumph over Old World...

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