According to Albert R. Hunt, writing in yesterday's Wall Street Journal ("It's a Real War and It's Not Going Well"), "Rather than an incentive to cooperate, the effect of the Bush pre-emptive doctrine on Iran and North Korea, the other members of the infamous axis of...
Silber Strikes Gold
Arthur Silber sees two options for Iraq policy: we can spend decades and billions in a futile attempt to turn Iraq into Switzerland (as the brilliant Jonah Goldberg once suggested), Or we can simply leave as quickly as possible -- which means that Iraq is likely to...
Attention Jim Lobe Fans
Check out this interview with Jim Lobe on the history of the neocons. If you have problems with the streaming version, you can also download the .mp3 version. Thanks to "Philip Dru," whose Website has a great selection of interviews with notable libertarians and...
What Gregg Easterbrook Should Have Written
John Laughland on violence, fictional and real, in The Spectator: During the recent Anglo-American attack on Iraq, no seriously disturbing images of corpses or wounded bodies were broadcast, just as they had not been during the Kosovo war in 1999 or the Afghan war in...
A Pulitzer for [i]Stars & Stripes[/i]?
Not that the Pulitzers mean anything, but notice all the buzz around Stars & Stripes lately? Well, there's another reference in this article on military voters squirming loose of the GOP claw. I pondered this possibility early last week (you heard it here first!), and...
Missing the Cold War
Speaking of "OK, So Vietnam Wasn't Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is"... Arnold Beichman's featured Opinon piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is titled "Why I Miss the Cold War." "Am I being wholly rational when I say that I miss the Cold War? "There was a...
This May Take Awhile
As many as 40 countries are capable of making nuclear weapons, according to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei. In related news, Iraq is still not one of them.
More Evidence of Bush’s Eroding Influence
Senate Confirms Bush Error on Indonesia Military Aid Earlier this month President Bush said that Congress had "changed their attitude" toward resuming the US program to train Indonesia's military, and was ready to "go forward with" funding the program. Last week a...
Take Your Daughter to War Day
As a supplement to Bill Kauffman's excellent "An Empire of Widows and Orphans," the posting of which at Hit & Run sparked a conflagration of stunning comparisons between moms and dads going to war in Iraq and moms and dads commuting to the office, I offer this article...
OK, So Vietnam Wasn’t Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is
Linda Chavez on Townhall.com today: Iraq is not Vietnam, no matter how much Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and the other Democratic presidential wannabes would like to pretend it is. As despicable as Ho Chi Minh was, he did not pose a direct threat to the...


