You've never been a regular reader of Matt Yglesias, either? Arthur Silber puts our minds at ease about the opportunity costs we've incurred.

Read Steve Gilliard's assessment of the condition of US supply lines in Iraq. The situation is so bad the CPA is almost reduced to eating MRE's. The New York Times reports: On Saturday, travelers heading north to Baghdad on the main highway from Kuwait saw at least...

Firefight Near Syrian Border? Robert Burns of the AP reported April 16 the glowing success the US Marines were having in their mission of "sealing the border" with Syria, even though "a number" of Marines were killed in the process.WASHINGTON (AP) -- Marines have had...

Ian Welsh points out in this insightful, must-read post that Europe reacted just as Osama bin Laden knew they would to his peace offer. Welsh writes that OBL was speaking to the Muslim world, not Europe, when he made his offer:As everyone has probably heard by now,...

Marines in Fallujah are reported to be holding 200 Iraqis in detention for refusing to take part in the assault on Fallujah. These Iraqis are described as members of the 36th Battalion of the ICDC. The 36th Battalion is an interesting unit, supposedly made up of...

No, not Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz or Bremer. But, hey, it's a start. In keeping with the Bush administration policy of never admitting they are ever wrong about anything, they haven't actually announced the fall from grace of one Khidir Hamza, the Iraqi who so obligingly...

Who Owns the Gaza Settlements? I was reading this article about what will happen to the houses, farms, and shops the Gaza settlers will leave behind when they are evacuated by the Israeli state and I realized I couldn't quite sort out what the libertarian answer was...

Though not about the Balkans per se, this has universal application. Here is the brilliant Butler Shaffer at LRC, on a historical choice before all of us (prompted by the 9/11 Commission three-ring circus): "As the bloody and repressive history of the 20th century...

An interesting comparison of Najaf to Waco by Dr. Jean Rosenfeld via David Neiwert. I have printed the entire letter here because my old eyes sometimes have difficulty reading against dark backgrounds and I suspect I am not the only one with this disability. David...

I was reading today in the news about a fugitive Chinese bank official accused of embezzling $485 million from his bank having been turned over by the US to Chinese officials. This brought to mind a somewhat similar criminal case, that of Ahmad Chalabi who, not only...