Emulating the popular game show Jeopardy!, if the answer is "Iraq," can you formulate the question? Consider the following: Ambassador L. Paul Bremer left behind 97 edicts telling the interim government and the Iraqi people everything from how to drive their autos and...
Simmering Land Disputes in Kurdistan Could Boil Over Into Violence
WASHINGTON – Amid all the violence and crime that have stricken much of central and southern Iraq in recent months, the northern region of Kurdistan has remained relatively quiet. But beneath that calm, according to a new report released Tuesday by Human Rights...
Bush Rallies Behind Colombian President, Despite Drug Allegations
The administration of President George W. Bush on Monday rallied behind Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in the face of allegations contained in a 13-year-old Pentagon intelligence report that he was a "close personal friend" of drug lord Pablo Escobar and...
Time to Define Terror
Immediately after 9/11, President Bush addressed the American people, defining policy in the simplest terms. "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." In declaring a War on Terrorism, he...
What Color Is the Wolf Today?
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The 9/11 Commission Chimera
There they go again, I thought to myself while listening Friday to 9/11 Commission Chair Gov. Tom Kean tell senators for the umpteenth time, "I do not find today anyone really in charge of the intelligence community." Kean's colleagues have been singing from...
Fixing What Bush Has Broken
What would a President Kerry do in Iraq that is different from what President Bush is doing? A week ago, George Will on ABC's This Week said you can't even get a tissue paper between the positions of Kerry and Bush. The more valid point was made yesterday on Meet the...
36 Ways the US Is Losing the War on Terror
Three years and half a trillion dollars later America is losing the war on terrorism. The 9/11 Commission has warned that more and worse acts of terrorism are to be expected. Bin Laden's planning always assumed that we, in reacting to him, would help him carry out his...
Defector Dilemma Upsetting Korean Diplomacy
SEOUL - "False expectations – that's how I put my life in South Korea, now," says North Korean defector Lee Min-Sun (not her real name), who works in a restaurant in the capital. "It's like a marriage to lover who makes false promises,"...
Antiwar.com – ‘A Low Budget Rabblerouser’?
I had to laugh out loud when I read Adam L. Penenberg's recent piece in Wired News, bemoaning the low status of the New York Times in Google's hierarchy of knowledge: "When I googled the terms 'Iraq torture prison Abu Ghraib' – certainly one of the most...