23 April 2003 | Uncategorized |
Now that the war\’s over and wrapped up well within the 6 weeks some of us (ahem) predicted, and rapidly rushing off the front pages, what, before it becomes sooo mid-March, is there for us all to agree on? Very simply this: the neoconservatives were behind it. They like to boast this, their antiwar opponents [...]
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22 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Alan Bock
From the conflicting news stories, suggesting that different factions leak to different media outlets or different writers, it is almost impossible for a mere citizen to get anything resembling a clear idea of U.S. intentions in postwar Iraq. Is the United States there for the long haul, or will a noticeable presence be a matter [...]
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21 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
The Iraqi morality play grinds on, now well into its second Act. Will the Shi’ites clash with the Sunnis, or will they unite and drive us back from whence we came? Will the long drama of the Kurds end in subjugation, or independence? And what of the Israelis – can they be accommodated without a [...]
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21 April 2003 | Uncategorized | matt
Last week, in an essay titled "Iraq’s Cultural Catastrophe – and Ours," Christopher Deliso wrote, "Having almost no history of its own, America is ignorant, almost contemptuous of that of other peoples." While ignorance and envy certainly played a role in the destruction, larger motives were at work, motives that go to the heart of [...]
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19 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Joseph Stromberg
One of the noteworthy features of the very late 20th and very early 21st centuries is the way in which everything that was once an historical accusation has become a defense. Thus, if on the evidence, FDR had a really good idea where the Japanese fleet was and where it was going in early December [...]
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18 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
No sooner had the War Party declared victory in Iraq and started looking impatiently around for their next victim, when their supposed easy conquest began to fall apart at the seams. The laptop field marshals and the Chickenhawk Brigade barely had time to pound out their demand that the peaceniks repent before it dawned on [...]
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18 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Christopher Deliso
Scarcely a week ago, massive statues of Saddam Hussein were being toppled and American tanks were surging through the streets of Baghdad, amidst what seemed to be widespread cheers from the Iraqi people for their American "liberators." Vindicated by the dizzying conquest over Saddam and all those antiwar curmudgeons, impatient neocons were quick to gloat: [...]
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18 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Sascha Matuszak
It all started when the Peace Corps quietly slipped out of China two weeks ago. There was a small, muted gathering at the local watering hole in Chengdu, and then they were gone, SARS being the culprit. Chengdu is a focal point for the Peace Corps in southwest China, they taught in the schools, ate [...]
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17 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Nebojsa Malic
Last week’s "liberation" of Iraq bore a striking resemblance to the "liberation" of Kosovo four years ago, or the continuing "freedom" Bosnia enjoys, replete with the Imperial occupation troops, a viceroy, general devastation and cultural destruction. Empire’s quest for a global Balkans grows more apparent by the day. The polls may indicate that most Americans [...]
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16 April 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength – and Daniel Pipes, the nation’s leading Islamophobe and a stalwart of the War Party, has been named to the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). While the Institute – a U.S. government agency first proposed in the 1970s by President [...]
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