Antiwar.com’s New Look

This week we begin switching over to our new look. Eventually, we will also have better archive searching as our database is built. Please let us know what you think, and let us know about any problems or suggestions you have for us as we conduct the changeover....

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Quotes

With our new look comes a new feature (among many others): quotes. We are always looking for more great quotes to add to our already large database. If you have one (or many) you think would work well with the website, use this form to submit it.

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The Five Hundredth

William Rivers Pitt presents this powerful perpective on who will be the soldier whose death will receive the dubious honor of being The Five Hundred in our continuing tragic war in Iraq. It will be upon us soon. Sometime, likely before January is out, the 500th...

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But I Wanna Be a Conspiracy Theorist!

Aw shucks, turns out we at Antiwar.com haven't been conjuring visions of a dark neocon conspiracy, after all. Jim Henley goes super-sleuth on something called Google: I read a lot of criticisms of neoconservative foreign policy. Been reading them for years, actually,...

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Democracy vs. Freedom

Every time I question either the policies or character of the "reformers" in the former Yugoslavia, there's guaranteed to be at least one letter accusing me of sympathies for the nationalists, nationalist-socialists, etc. My disdain for democracy really gets people's...

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Atrocity Exhibition, with an Unlikely Curator

Anyone catch this report of a U.S. atrocity in Iraq? I'm not sure I buy it, but it's not from an antiwar/anti-occupation source-- it's from Zeyad. Yes, that Zeyad, he of "kill and rape all the Sunnis" fame. Glenn Reynolds and co. had no problem with that little...

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Liberventionists in Oz

R.J. Stove nominates Tim Blair for most obnoxious. Despite the general irrelevance of his posts, he seems mildly witty. I was actually chuckling a bit as I scrolled down the page--until I hit this post on David Brooks' latest ruminations: Brooks has nailed it... David...

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I Think the Accent Was on “Creative,” Guys

The fascinating economist Joseph Schumpeter, whose concept of "creative destruction" has been so abused by Michael Ledeen and various liberventionists, opposed the Second World War. Found this nugget from a Schumpeter biography via LRC blog: Before the war's outbreak...

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