Speaking of "OK, So Vietnam Wasn't Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is"... Arnold Beichman's featured Opinon piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is titled "Why I Miss the Cold War." "Am I being wholly rational when I say that I miss the Cold War? "There was a...
As many as 40 countries are capable of making nuclear weapons, according to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei. In related news, Iraq is still not one of them.
Senate Confirms Bush Error on Indonesia Military Aid Earlier this month President Bush said that Congress had "changed their attitude" toward resuming the US program to train Indonesia's military, and was ready to "go forward with" funding the program. Last week a...
As a supplement to Bill Kauffman's excellent "An Empire of Widows and Orphans," the posting of which at Hit & Run sparked a conflagration of stunning comparisons between moms and dads going to war in Iraq and moms and dads commuting to the office, I offer this article...
Linda Chavez on Townhall.com today: Iraq is not Vietnam, no matter how much Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and the other Democratic presidential wannabes would like to pretend it is. As despicable as Ho Chi Minh was, he did not pose a direct threat to the...
According to the FBI, 613,986 Americans were arrested in 2002 for mere possession of marijuana. Nathaniel Heatwole faces up to 10 years in prison for demonstrating how porous airport security remains. The National Park Service has blockaded an Alaska family in an...
Leave it to our favorite Canuck to look on the bright side of car bombings and missile attacks: See, all the terrorism in Iraq is good, cos it'll teach the Arabs to hate terrorism.
Just heard a Gen. McInerney on Fox News say that the U.S. has accomplished its primary goal in Iraq, that of ensuring the Iraqi citizens' Four Freedoms. He couldn't quite remember what those are, however, so he came up with "freedom of government, freedom of the...
In McLaughlin Group alumni news, Pat Buchanan sticks up for Gen. Boykin on rather dubious "takes fire to fight fire" grounds. Eerily similar to last Wednesday's townhall.com essay by Tony Blankley, right down to the word "splendid." Some sort of Halloween prank brewing?
Today's article by Karen Kwiatkowski at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons - and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. Now, I'm a fan of cultural history, which is relevant...
