So maybe al Qaeda exploited US jihad support prior to Sept 11, 2001, but since then the government has been kicking the terrorists' butts. Right? Maybe not. According to a new Syracuse University study, in the 2 years after the Sept 11 attacks the Justice Department...
Heartily recommends Aleksandar Jokic's "Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland" from "Today's Spotlight." Is Andrew really so ignorant of our critique of neoconservatism as to think that the Lenin comparison is new? If so, I suggest he start with Chad Nagle's "The...
A couple of questions as the White House rebukes John Kerry for using the f-word in Rolling Stone: *How short is Andrew Card's memory? *Is Kerry worse than Kerrey?
The indefatigable Jim Henley has a laugh at the new gee whiz WMD claims.
The Hague Inquisition convicted Bosnian Serb General Stanislav Galic Friday, of "command responsibility" in the siege of Sarajevo. According to BBC, Galic was found guilty of "murder" (?) and "infliction of terror," and sentenced to 20 years in prison. I lived in...
Antiwar.com's Blog has been nominated for the WizBang Weblog Awards. Half of the categories are denoted by evolutionary state. We are in the category of Best Crawly Amphibians Ecosystem Level Blog, which is the lower end of the evolutionary scale (not an insult, we...
Robert Stinnett on the continuing Pearl Harbor coverup. Don't look for any of this information tomorrow on the History Channel. And don't expect to know the full story on the WTC attacks by September 11, 2063.
Saddam's former translator gives us another justification for the war: ‘He wrote in a hurry. It was as if he had all these ideas he just wanted to get out and his formal pronouncements weren’t enough.’ To express even the simplest ideas, Saddam used a convoluted style...
The documentary Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War will be shown at house parties nationwide on Sunday. Click here to find a screening near you.
*Two great articles to be read in tandem: David Isenberg on the militarization of civil society, and historian Edmund Morgan on Gore Vidal's America. Includes this definition of "democracy" from Vidal: [A] word that appears nowhere in the American Constitution, or,...
