Daniel McAdams on what Congress did while you weren't paying attention yesterday. But what use is the application of the Lenin and Trotsky perfected techniques of the coup d'etat without the stabilization shock troops on the ground to consolidate the gains? Lebanon's...
The newest issue of the Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2005) begins an appeal for funds ("Make the Pledge"--p. 40) with this statement: "Our country is at war, and at the heart of a successful war effort must be the political conviction that this country is worth...
Hat Tip: The Libertarian Enterprise.
The controversy continues over an Associated Press story detailing the remarks of a “senior Israeli official” who claimed that Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in London for an economic conference, was warned by Scotland Yard “minutes” in advance of the terrorist...
Speaking of WMDs that do exist... For some reason or other, a few dozen Nobel prize-winning scientists and other smarty-pantses are concerned that America and Russia still have enough nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert to destroy civilization ("Nobel Laureates say...
Three years ago, under the psuedonym "Jim Rissman," I wrote a piece for Antiwar that was then used by Freedomfiles.org to anchor its "Atrocities against the Afghan People" section. The Northern Alliance, a U.S. client, took prisoners "in a U.S.-orchestrated military...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I will be asking Juan Cole many questions about the situation in Iraq and in the second hour, I'll be talking with Robert A. Pape about his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Saturday 4-6 pm eastern...
As is common with such revolutions, the democratic free-market Orange revolution in Ukraine continues to show signs of having turned sour before it began. Anders Aslund writes, "Last year Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of 12 percent; in the first four months of this...
I wrote "Smokescreen" in the early hours of July 13, so I could not have read, much less mentioned, an editorial that appeared later that morning in Newsday. Titled "Serbs finally look within," the editorial manages to pull together just about every strand of Official...
Many don't see the parallels: each was (is) a failed foreign policy. Few politicians, liberals, "conservatives" or pundits supported or opposed both. Except of course, Antiwar.com. Here are some choice quotes from many who were critical of the US intervention in...
