A conservative blogger comments on my recent column on the Litvinenko affair: It has become a very strange time indeed when I find myself in complete agreement with an anti-war liberal. In this case it is on the Litvinenko incident, and the argument laid out is an...
Worth reading -- Juan Cole on Gerald Ford's foreign policy. An excerpt: All presidents make errors, and some abuses occurred on Ford's watch, though they often were initiated by Kissinger. But Ford faced with no illusions the challenges of his era, of detente with the...
Clifford May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies -- a neocon nest explored in an excellent 2003 piece by Dan McCarthy in The American Conservative -- opines that the Ethiopians, currently fighting and supposedly beating "Islamist" militias in...
Dilbert today is worth triple its weight in Harvard political philosophers. Scott Adams is no boot-burnisher. This cartoon cuts to the heart of the fraud of contemporary democracy. I am amused to hear talk of politicians having mandates when voters had a choice of...
It was all over the media yesterday: "Soldiers Tell Gates They Back Surge" CNN TV reported that "a small but representative sample" of troops met with Gates and unanimously urged him to send more troops, presenting this view as a contrast to the views of US commanders...
On December 21, 1995, Antiwar.com was born. On that day, I made the first posting to the site. Since then, we have continued to upgrade, adding daily news updates starting in 1998, going to round-the-clock coverage during the Kosovo War in 1999. Today, Antiwar.com is...
David Beito of Liberty & Power sends along this petition urging an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Though the big names at the top skew very left, the statement strikes this libertarian as admirably focused and unobjectionable in its particulars....
This "Dialogue Session with President Bush" gets my vote for the funniest Bush video ever.
In response to today's column, a reader writes: Wow... I was just saying that I liked the fact that Obama is anti-war. Guess I was wrong. I believe of all the people who have been mentioned in the news as possible '08 candidates... that he is the least pro war next to...
At first glance, I figured I'd be amused, but I was quickly sickened by what I read in Ha'aretz today. A female American tourist was riding a bus to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and when a gang of Haredi men ordered her to the back of the bus, she refused....
