Conservatives have never believed in massive foreign aid. Our occupation of Iraq has become the largest foreign aid program in the history of the world. We are building or rebuilding thousands of Iraqi schools, giving free health care to Iraqi citizens, and even...
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I wrote this review of Jim Bovard's important new book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, for The American Conservative, and they have (quite unexpectedly!) put it online – and thus given me a day off. Actually,...
The most plausible reason I could come up with for the curious dance of denial by top administration officials regarding a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 terrorist attacks is that it was a short-term political effort to defuse Vice President...
The class action suit names 11 companies and 33 banks alleged to have helped Iraq with its chemical weapons program in the 1980's, despite knowledge Saddam Hussein was actively using WMD against both Iranians and his own people. At the time, Reagan's Middle East envoy...
A desperate Saddam-on-the-run is reportedly in secret negotiations with the Americans – he's having second thoughts about his formerly expressed belief that "that no honorable hand has stretched out to greet" the "miscreant, murderous and cowardly occupier," as...
The neo-conservative media machine has been hard at work lately drumming up support for the $87 billion appropriation to extend our precarious occupation of Iraq. Opposition to this funding, according to the Secretary of Defense, encourages our enemies and hinders the...
How much more foolishness from the Bush Administration can we expect before next year's elections? US Treasury Secretary John Snow's visit on the heels of the DPRK talks was a failure. He met with a few toadies and was sent on his way amidst a hail of protest from...
Presidential elections historically are predicated on the answers to questions that can't be asked in public. Would Reagan have won in 1980 if the Republicans hadn't cut a deal with Iran to release US hostages only upon his assumption of the Presidency? Why didn't...
It would be funny if it wasn't so ominous. Remember those "weapons of mass destruction" the Iraqis were supposed to be holding, poised to strike us at any moment? Yeah, that's right, the ones that turned out to not exist – or were destroyed after Gulf War I. Or...
