One Reason Iraqis Aren’t So Thankful…

I talked to Scott Horton yesterday about whether or not the Iraq war is really over and whether or not America endowed every Iraqi with freedom and independence (as opposed to a creeping dictatorship). But, as Iraqis burned the American flag yesterday during the last...

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The Danger from Politicizing “Terror”

By politicizing who is and who is not a “terrorist” – pinning the label on American adversaries and sparing purported American friends – the U.S. government created confusion at FBI headquarters that contributed to the failure to stop the 9/11 attacks, reports ex-FBI...

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Drunks & Foreign Aid on Fox News

Fox News ran a two-part report on foreign aid this week. Fox's John Roberts asked me last week about a couple foreign aid "success stories." I doubted the success claims but I commented that there had been so many programs over the years, that..... Well, here's the...

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Journey to the Center of an Islamophobe’s Mind

I don't know how my arcane little post on Frank Gaffney's World War I theories launched a discussion of Shariah law, bikinis, "executive gays," and Ted Nugent, but Eric Dondero dropped in, so… Dondero is raving about, among other things, a county in Maryland providing...

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Peaceful, Market Alternatives to the Drug War?

I seemed to have missed this last week: The presidents of  the Latin American countries attending the eighth summit meeting of the Tuxtla System for Dialogue approved a formal request to the United States and other drug consuming countries that they curb drug...

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‘Misguided and Extreme Views’ on Israel

Last week I noted in a post that according to "a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council" the "so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel" - essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area - is like no man's land. In 2010, 40...

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