Month: November 2004

Apparently President Bush believes he has been given another four years to subvert and/or replace the half-dozen or so regimes he deems to be either a threat to the “freedom” of its citizens or to our “national security.” Iran is at the top of his list. How else to explain the concerted effort this week … Continue reading “Iran’s Stealthy Nukes”

Preamble: April 28, 2003: U.S. soldiers kill 18 Fallujah school children. Act I April, 2004: In the attack on Fallujah, which ended after 3 weeks in defeat of the “coalition”: "U.S. forces bombed the power plant at the beginning of the assault; …The town was placed under siege; the ban on bringing in food, medicine, … Continue reading “Greetings from Fallujah!”

BAGHDAD – What is the most common thing moms do? Take care of their kids? That’s what Susan Galleymore was doing when I met her. The uncommon thing was that she’d traveled halfway around the world, from San Francisco to Baghdad, to take care of her son. Nick is a U.S. Army Ranger, an occupation … Continue reading “An Uncommon Mom in Baghdad”

BEIJING – Even as Iran pledges suspension of its uranium-enrichment program to avert United Nations sanctions, U.S.-led international efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear capabilities are being undermined by the emergence of an ever stronger partnership between China and the Middle-Eastern country. This was clearly evident when Seyed Hossein Mussavian, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic … Continue reading “China-Iran Tango Threatens US Leverage”

President Bush probably wanted to burnish his self-styled reputation as a fierce opponent of terrorism who has conflated other conflicts with the all-encompassing and likely generations-long War on Terror and can celebrate success wherever his writ runs. But in declaring, for the umpteenth time in recent years, imminent victory in the war on cocaine in … Continue reading “Colombian Illusions”

I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative ideologues who have seized control of the U.S. government. … Continue reading “What Became of Conservatives?”

Well, I tried to write a column for today, but even I have social obligations during the holiday season – which could not be reconciled with the effort that goes into producing 1000-plus words, complete with links and a unifying theme. So tune in next week, on Monday, when I’ll have what I consider to … Continue reading “Instead of a Column”

A growing number of American Jews believes that major changes in U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian policies are essential to the resumption of any meaningful negotiations for peace – but they are fighting an uphill struggle because of President George W. Bush’s support for the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Many peace advocates are … Continue reading “US Jewish Groups Press Mideast Peace”

I strongly oppose this ill-conceived, counterproductive legislation. This represents exactly the kind of unconstitutional interventionism the Founding Fathers warned us about. It is arrogant and dangerous for us to believe that we can go around the world inserting ourselves into civil wars that have nothing to do with us without having to face the unintended … Continue reading “Stay Out of Sudan’s Civil War”

Nine years ago this week, after lengthy and exasperating negotiations, leaders of Serbia, Croatia, and the Bosnian Muslims finally agreed to end the Bosnian war. The peace treaty was officially signed on Dec. 14, 1995 in Paris. It was seen as the capstone to American intervention in the Balkans, which supposedly solved the crisis Europe … Continue reading “Once Upon a Peace”