I received a note from a reader yesterday about an article on the Financial Times website . Without presuming to speak about the actual contents of the article - read it and make up your own mind - the author caught my correspondent's attention with these passages:...

Updated: Iraqis, including US-employed police, report that no more than 8 Iraqis were killed in the "battle." The US claims that a total of 68 people were killed over the weekend, marking the end of the bloodiest month so far in Iraq. The US-claimed total includes 54...

An American soldier explains his concern for Iraqi "hearts and minds" to a Western journalist: I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the "strike first" directive with the US military's current policy of...

Armstrong Williams, noted chronicler of born-again Zionism, risks provoking the ire of Abe Foxman: Our close relationship with Israel also presents a rapid response option. During Desert Storm, Israeli forces prevented Saddam's troops from invading Saudi Arabia and...

FOB Antony S. comments on "Why There's No Left Left": Point taken, but do these people really own all this stuff, or are they just renting it from banks and loan companies?

Justin Raimondo's column yesterday, along with his piece on Neal Boortz brought in more hate mail than any time since the height of the Iraq War. Very few of the letters appeared to be from libertarians defending Boortz as one of our own. Most of them appeared to be...

I was not allowed to show what happens to an American soldier when they get killed in that way. But I can say that war is a horrible thing. And with large caliber weapons, people don't just get red spots and collapse, they come apart, pieces all over the place. ... I...

Interesting piece in the Washington Post today partially reveals how the recent "revolution" in the Caucasus nation of Georgia (Gruziya) was modeled after the Serbian coup of 2000. This confirms the rumors and news of Serbians "training" Georgian opposition groups...

In today's New York Times , neocon Leslie Gelb advocates a partition of Iraq into three ethnic statelets. Then he invokes a "precedent" (sic): Yugoslavia. According to Gelb, it was held together by Tito's laudable coercion, but the supposed Serb coercion to that end...

Now that another NRO voice has joined the general exchange of ignorance about the Istanbul bombings, it's high time for a corrective from, of all places, The Wall Street Journal. Interesting analysis by Norman Stone, a scholar who actually lives in Turkey: Do...