Most of the media are trying to make the very difficult case that in boosting defense spending President Bush is starving domestic programs. Unfortunately, too few people are questioning the defense budget itself. We're at war, after all, and the military probably...
Free Taki!
The idea that the "allies" – basically, the U.S. and Britain – are two liberal "democracies" that are bound and determined to "liberate" Iraq from the evil repressive Saddam has always been a complete crock. The...
You Don\’t Have to Be Brave To Be French
My goodness, but you wouldn\'t want to be French or German. Not, at any rate, if you read what their English speaking friends have to say about them. Popping up in The Times yesterday, Max Boot (he gets about) offered the helpful suggestion that to understand French...
The Case Weakens, the Plot Thickens
White House officials have said that the space shuttle disaster will not slow down or alter the president’s plans on war with Iraq. That’s defensible, of course – or it would be if the war itself were defensible. While the loss of the space shuttle and...
India Should Oppose War on Iraq, But Will It?
Just a day before United States President George W. Bush delivered a fresh diatribe against Iraq in his State of the Union address, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did something unexpected. He appealed to the Great Powers to show "great...
The Kook Factor
We've heard much about the "radicalism" of the antiwar movement, even as it becomes more mainstream. The War Party focuses on the most marginal elements in an effort to characterize the movement as kooky. This is not only a smear, but an effort to divert...