John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt, authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy made an appearence on C-SPAN Monday to discuss those very things. Watch it here.

The Los Angeles Times ran a piece of mine today that advocates using the same coercive interrogation methods on congressmen that Congress approve for Bush's military tribunals. Full text of the piece is at the LATimes here (registration required?) and at my website...

Why would anyone support the American president at this point? The answer is simple: Cowardice. Republicans are sissies. They talk tough and drive trucks, but in truth are very afraid that a scary Arabic Islamo-Fascist™ is going to come to hurt them – for no...

Antiwar.com contributor Leon Hadar discusses his book Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East on C-SPAN.

Most conservative think tanks are nothing but conservative war tanks. A case in point is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Even though the Marine Corps has called up more reservists, more cannon fodder is still needed. As reported in today's USA Today,...

Friend-of-blog Dennis Perrin will be on a panel next Wednesday in Tarrytown, N.Y., addressing the topic "Horror and chaos in the Middle East: Who's to blame, and is there a remedy?" For more information, click here.

On this 8/22 – a date seared into our collective semiconscious forever – Jim Henley begins the healing process.

The general dishonesty of Bush's ridiculous press conference Monday has already been covered, but he did say two things that weren't outright lies. That U.S forces will never leave Iraq if he can help it is a given, but I want to point out the one other thing Bush...

Occasionally, when time permits (and it rarely does), I indulge myself by reading something non-work-related, something wonderfully distant from the carnage in the Middle East or the police state at home. Maybe something about art, or sports, or science. For instance,...

Aim High! Step right up! Bring your daughter on down! Sign her up for the Service. It’s a great way for her to be able to afford to go to college and be a professional when she grows up! (If you don’t mind her being raped, that is.) The Washington Times: “More...