They’ll Come For Us Next

It's the double standards that gets me – no, cancel that, it's the spineless me-tooism that's really so revolting. I don't 'blame' the United States for being the number one nation, still less for doing number one nation stuff, but what does get to me each time...

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Many Ways the US Attack on Iraq May Fail

Many supporters of the U.S. war against Iraq suppose that it will be won quickly and easily. Not all responsible analysts agree. Two doubters are particularly interesting, one opposed to attacking Iraq, the other supporting it. Three scenarios are outlined by Immanuel...

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What Is ‘New’ In the New Bush Doctrine?

Toward the end of last month, there emerged from Important Places a statement of the strategic thinking of the Bush administration. Much was made of the document's unilateralism and rhetorical embellishments. Further examination suggests that the chief novelty lies in...

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Iraq: ‘A War Waiting for a Pretext’

For about a year, we've been hearing how intensely George W. Bush wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Mr. Bush has made all sorts of accusations against Hussein, but offered no public evidence to support his assertions. Finally, this past Monday evening we were...

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Iraq – First Stop on the Road to Empire

We're ki cking off our Fall campus tour, and Justin Raimondo is on the road: what follows is the text of a speech delivered on October 9, 2002, at Washington University, Missouri. Why war? Why Iraq? And why now? As the editorial director of Antiwar.com, and a...

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Missile Tests Foment New Rivalries

As the beat of America's war-drums against Iraq gets louder, the Indian government finds itself in an untenably contradictory situation: should it support a United Nations-endorsed attack against Iraq's "terrorist" Saddam Hussein regime, as part of US...

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Opposing the Use of Military Force Against Iraq

I oppose the resolution authorizing military force against Iraq. The wisdom of the war is one issue, but the process and the philosophy behind our foreign policy are important issues as well. But I have come to the conclusion that I see no threat to our national...

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Khan Yunis: Before the Juggernaut

A mobile watchtower, lifted into the air by a crane, surveys Khan Yunis day and night. An ambulance from the city waits behind a nearby concrete building day after day; it waits so that the next child shot for playing too close to the wall can make it to the local...

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Forward to The Past

Results of the Bosnian general elections should be official by now, though it was already obvious on Tuesday that ethnic parties triumphed convincingly. Though agency reports over the past several days have made a great deal of that outcome, as usual they refused to...

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