Month: October 2002

Question: what is the modern Tory definition of leadership? Answer: asking a question. This at least was how William Hague told it over the Euro. And I say this as someone who came to see a lot of merit in him by the end – this certainly was a man you could measure by the … Continue reading “What’s In A Question?”

Perhaps I should not have been surprised, but I was at least somewhat appalled that with the wall-to-wall coverage the issue received almost no attention. But the use of a military surveillance plane to try to capture the notorious Beltway murderer raises serious questions about the already-tattered separation between military activity and domestic civilian law … Continue reading “Bending Posse Comitatus Brings Bad Results”

As if to confirm what some opponents of this war have been saying – but not too loudly – about this being a war for Israel, the Bush administration is now "weighing an Israeli proposal for a joint operation in Iraq’s western desert to disarm Iraqi missiles before they could be launched against Israel." That … Continue reading “SMEARING THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT”

When we go to war in Iraq we will do so to summon the Messiah. That is what the Christian right believes. The final battle to rid the world of all non-believers, non-Christians, more exactly non-Evangelical Christians, is going to take place very soon at Armageddon in Israel. The Bible tells us so. Rev. Jerry … Continue reading “Armageddon”

Another day, another threat of war – this time on the North Korean front. Surely Pyongyang’s startling admission that indeed it is actively pursuing the nuclear option – "and more powerful things as well," according to this New York Times report – has pulled the rug out from under the War Party, even as the … Continue reading “NORTH KOREA’S HALLOWEEN SURPRISE”

Monomania is the chief characteristic of most madmen, and so it is with those who are clamoring for war. By monomania I mean a fixation, or obsession, that colors perceptions and makes normal interaction with the world difficult, if not well nigh impossible. Your typical monomaniac might be, say, an anti-Semite, who interprets virtually all … Continue reading “THE SNIPER”

Since Old Deng’s Open Door policy toward the world and the West in particular, foreigners have been pouring into China in greater numbers. Excluding the few years following the Tiananmen Tragedy, the number of travelers, businessmen, scholars and teachers arriving in China has increased with each passing year. The focus has been on the business … Continue reading “The Future of East-West Rapprochement”

They say that committing murder becomes easier after you have done it the first time. The same is true of killing democracy. Next Saturday, Ireland will vote on the Nice Treaty, having already voted No to it in a referendum held in June 2001. This is the clearest possible betrayal of democracy and it bodes … Continue reading “The Euro-Soviet Threat”

In the wake of Congress having voted, after a desultory debate consisting mostly of three-minute statements written by aides, to give the president authorization to attack Iraq if he feels so moved, the most striking impression one gets is of how the appalling people who rule us love to pump up their chosen adversaries. But … Continue reading “Pipsqueak Adversaries”

While my opinion of the War Party’s propaganda and tactics has always been low, I never thought they would stoop to the tactics employed by Ronald Radosh, the neoconservative author and frequent writer for Frontpage, whose recent piece in the Boston Globe [10/13/02] characterizes me as nothing but a …. faggot. And a leftist – … Continue reading “THE TWO FACES OF RONALD RADOSH”