In its obituary article on Robert McNamara today, the Washington Post mentions that McNamara was a director of the Washington Post company. Was that honor bestowed because of McNamara's lies or because of his war crimes? Or maybe he was just a really really great...
Antiwar.com columnist Alan Bock will be taking a break from his weekly column while he finishes writing a book. Be sure to check out today's installment, "Independence, Empire Don’t Mesh."
President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama's ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the...
Looking at Margaret and Jason's close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq-- something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday -- it's becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration...
National Review’s Rich Lowry: A major irony in Bush’s policy is that Iran appears to be much better primed than Iraq for a transition to democratic government (although Iraq is managing it anyway). It hasn’t been devastated by sanctions and war the way Iraq was;...
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
Daniel Halper writes in The Weekly Standard today: On “The Early Show†this morning, Obama said that “what we can do is bear witness and say–to the world that the, you know, incredible demonstrations that we’ve seen is a testimony to–I think what Dr. King...
Two videos of the same event, a woman shot (probably dead), in the streets of Tehran: And another shooting: Here is a student shot after he threw rocks: A shooting victim is evacuated:
Ron Paul spoke today against the House resolution on Iran. I rise in reluctant opposition to H Res 560, which condemns the Iranian government for its recent actions during the unrest in that country. While I never condone violence, much less the violence that...
Guest post by Daniel Luban: On Tuesday, Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh of AEI published a New York Times op-ed claiming that the real and unnoticed story of the Iranian elections is that the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have “effected a silent coup d’etatâ€...
