They enlisted to defend our nation from attack. Now, they are encamped on the other side of the world as an occupation force with cloudy and confusing goals. Though they did sign on the dotted line voluntarily, with the coming of Bush and the neocons, like the...
With the recent death of an American soldier by improvised explosive device, the total number of Americans killed in Iraq reached 555. This combat death follows three other incidents in Iraq: March 8th: soldier dies of a "non-combat cause." March 7th: soldier dies of...
Roderick Long has organized a series of links for a very interesting debate that has been going on over at the Liberty and Power group blog on the subject of libertarians and the left. Here's a post I did a few days ago inspired by the Liberty and Power debate with...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: In the Balkans, everything is politics. Thus with the recent story concerning a folk festival marked by consumption of the world's biggest pork sausage, the Serbian Orthodox Church's reaction to it, and the coverage this...
Spencer Ackerman has an interesting analysis on the gyrations of Chalabi & Co. last weekend. Essentially he asks, what if the walkout by the five Shi`a puppets wasn't Sistani's idea at all? What if what we saw was an attempted end run around Sistani? It makes sense in...
As mentioned earlier, the Web is abuzz with talk of the Libertarian Purity Test. Let's forget the purity bit for a minute and talk about the ideas. My main gripe is that everyone seems to be posting scores instead of talking about specific areas of assent/dissent,...
A U.S. food subcontractor that runs 10% of the dining facilities in Iraq says it hasn't been paid by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for months and is threatening to stop serving hot meals to U.S. troops stationed there, NBC News reported Monday. The company, Event...
It's all the rage. Try it.
I'm referring, of course, to Victor Davis Hanson's two hour appearance on C-Span's Book TV Sunday evening. After reading his essays in National Review for some time, I was paying close attention to the corners of his mouth for rivulets of foam. All in vain, since...
Top Iraqi scientists, led by Jafar Dhia Jafar, who is known as the father of Iraq’s nuclear programme, said that UN inspectors had “reached total conviction” that Iraq was free of nuclear weapons before the US invasion of Iraq, yet failed to convey that information...
