Does this mean American private contractors have joined the Iraqi insurgents, or what?Sixteen private American security guards are under investigation for shooting at U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians during a three-hour spree west of Baghdad, the military said...
If neoconservatism is a biographical creed, denoting someone who has evolved from some variant of Leninism or Marxism into a supporter of George W. Bush's foreign policy of American global military dominance, then President Meles Zenawi certainly fits the bill. A...
Remember all those cool-looking kids calling for "democracy" and waving orange banners at that giant rock concert that styled itself Ukraine's "Orange Revolution"? No one but us "democrats" here -- right? Wrong. John Laughland, among others, warned us about the...
As if the slaughter unleashed by Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov, a staunch American ally in the "war on terrorism," wasn't enough, another pro-U.S. commie dictator, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, is mowing down protestors in the streets: 22 dead, so far, dozens wounded, and...
Natan Sharansky, author of The Case for Democracy -- which President Bush has said he read with admiration -- certainly can't be accused of consistency. When confronted by Pat Buchanan on the kind of "democracy" he envisions for the Palestinians, Sharansky balked:...
Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, relates this exchange with Alexander "I'm in charge here" Haig during the Watergate imbroglio: "It was late in the evening on May 16, 1973, and I was in the Washington bureau of the Times, immersed in yet another story about...
No, Stupid, not between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Antiwar.com reader Eric S. has had some problems with one of Justin Raimondo's hyperlinks (not the same sort of frustrations as doofus the Trotskycon):I often check the links just for the sake of, well,...
Nobel laureate and neolibertarian favorite Milton Friedman gives his protégés something to ignore:Friedman supported Bush's first-term candidacy, but he is more accurately libertarian than conservative and not a reliable Bush ally. Progress in his goal of rolling back...
Apparently, the Associated Press and Reuters are no longer part of it. From a Sean Hannity interview with Matt Drudge:SEAN HANNITY: Just before coming on the air, I check the Drudge Report. You have a huge blockbuster story that is up there now saying that the...
Byron Williams shares this gem from a recent Condoleezza Rice speech:And when you think they [Iraqis] aren't going to make it -- when you want to criticize what they're doing and it's taking a long time and this and that -- just remember, not to this date, have they...
