Maybe I should've held onto my Sunday blog posting about coalition forces killing Afghan civilians for a few days. If I had: I could've pointed this out as well. So, fresh off a series of airstrikes that killed scores of civilians last week, fresh off promises of...
Scott may be on to something when he points out the "Fort Dix Six" were caught in an FBI entrapment scheme. But I have an easier time believing the government line (yeah, I know, I said it) considering that four of them are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. I hear at...
I don't believe much in the way of assertions from the Department of Justice, but somehow this part of the LA Times coverage of the Ft. Dix "terrorist plot" rings true to me: "A paid FBI informant was able to infiltrate the group, and began taping many conversations...
The year is 1939, and the Soviet Union has just signed a non-aggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. While the effects of this pact were myriad and far-reaching, what interests us here is the secret portion of the document dividing up the...
Truman, Johnson, Bush: Addict presidents and their disastrous wars of choice
for women. Not only are military sexual assaults on the rise (there were about 3,000 assaults reported last year--up 24%), at the Department of Veteran's Affairs woman's trauma recovery program in Palo Alto, Calif., 78 percent of women being treated for PTSD were...
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) is no stranger to war. He signed up with the Marines in 1964 and went to Vietnam in the grimmest, bloodiest days of the war. He survived a shot to the chest, and spent the decades afterward studying foreign policy, history, and why nations...
Remember how I dreamt of more national dialogue on the war from a sane perspective? It seems the Washington Post has the precise opposite hope: They want the antiwar candidates, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel, out of the debates. These debates are "cluttered," apparently,...
Over the last few years, I've come to understand that the only meaningful difference between the New York Times and the New York Post is that the latter is occasionally good for a chuckle. The two rags take equally insouciant approaches to reality. Witness Patricia...
Paul Wolfowitz is now almost certain to get booted from the World Bank. Unfortunately, the World Bank itself will probably survive. (The Washington Post frets today that the Wolfowitz scandal could “jeopardizeâ€Â efforts to squeeze more bucks out of foreign...
