French General Philippe Morillon, whose intervention saved the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from defeat in 1993 and helped establish it as a "safe area" for civilians (and the 28th Infantry Division of the Bosnian [Muslim] Army), made a fatal error last week. He let...
I suppose the oft-bleated excuse that "9/11 changed everything" will be blamed for why the man who warned against Big Brother has become Big Brother. Here's then-Sen. John Ashcroft's thoughts on the Internet and the Bill of Rights back in 1997. There is a concern that...
In today's "Best of the Web," James Taranto pokes fun at Mikhail Gorbachev for finally admitting the obvious about the Soviet war on Afghanistan; now, I'll poke fun at Taranto for failing to see the obvious parallels: The Soviet Union's 10-year invasion of Afghanistan...
"Riverbend" is the alias of a 24-year-old Iraqi woman who started her own blog, Baghdad Burning, back in August of last year to write about her day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. In her entry for February 15th, 2004, she speaks...
Many thanks to the Guardian(UK) for putting together this fascinating collage of opinions on the Iraqi War in their article True Colors. It's an interesting read. In 1937 WH Auden and Stephen Spender asked 150 writers for their views on the Spanish Civil War. The...
James Longley recently traveled to Nasiriyah filming the story of a sheik in Moqtada Sadr's religious-political movement. This is a narrative of his journey, with a side trip to Al-Garraf, a nearby town. There is only one full-time doctor working in the medical center...
He was apparently just first among equals back in 1991, when the U.S. government deliberately destroyed Iraq's infrastructure: Among the justifications offered now [shortly after Gulf War I], particularly by the Air Force in recent briefings, is that Iraqi civilians...
I am not linking to this horrific article to discuss the politics of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, fifty-nine years years ago today. I am linking to it to illustrate that war is always the most terrible method nations can resort to in settling their...
Got a number of emails re "Why There's No Left Left (Part II)." Eugene Koontz pointed out that 2 of the links in the post were broken. Here they are again: "Why There's No Left Left [Part I]" and "Cash or Charge?" Thanks Mr. Koontz! --- Thant Tessman writes: "Minor...
The story of Geoge W. Bush's rise to wealth and the people who helped him, well worth the time it takes to read this 26-page article from Harpers Magazine originally written back in Feb 2000 by Joe Concson and Kevin P. Phillips while Bush was a candidate for the...
