Sharon’s Dilemma

Well, let’s see. Sharon has bulldozed some more houses in Rafah, shot some stone throwing little boys, assaulted the Al Aqsa mosque with riot police, who even shot sound bombs into the mosque, had a shootout at a Palestinian mental hospital, and threatened to...

“Humanitarian” Mercenaries?

One of the appeals currently being made by the warbots is an attempt to drum up sympathy for the Americans killed in Fallujah by casting them as humanitarian workers delivering food to the Iraqis. As AntiWar’s Justin Raimondo points out when critiquing Peggy...

3 Reasons for NOT invading Iraq

Thomas Schaller in the Gadflyer has been kind enough to put up a transcript of Richard Clarke’s interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air program. Clarke distills his argument for why invading Iraq has increased the problem of terrorism into 3 major points....

US Vetoes UN Resolution

Meanwhile, the Americans were working closely with Spanish diplomats at the UN to push the Security Council resolution in words which suited Madrid. America’s permanent representative to the UN, John Negroponte told reporters that the Bush administration was satisfied...

Blaming Spain

By now everyone even vaguely following events in Spain has undoubtedly noted the pro-Iraq war, conservative and Republican response to the ousting of Aznar’s PP party in the recent election. It goes like this: Thanks, Spain! Due to your cowardice, every...