USA Today reports the Bush administration will ask for $100 billion to cover the latest "off-budget" costs of the Iraq war, and notes the response of Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.): "I hope they ask for something big. Look, this is a test of wills. We need to show...
Led by a dozen retired generals and admirals, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, human rights groups are urging the U.S. Senate to carefully scrutinize the role of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in devising detention and interrogation...
A nation's foreign policy is bankrupt, Walter Lippmann wrote, when its strategic assets, its arms and alliances, are insufficient to cover its liabilities – i.e., its commitments to defend critical territory and vital interests. Japan's strike on Pearl Harbor and...
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BANGKOK - While volunteers, relief workers and families are busy collecting and searching for bodies in Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Aceh province, Indonesian soldiers are continuing their offensive against separatist rebels, critics say. This, say international human...
CAIRO - After a year of tough talk from U.S. policymakers about the inevitable "democratization" of the Middle East, Washington appears to be backtracking, along with its Arab friends in the region. With the reelection of U.S. President George W. Bush and his hardline...
The idea that today's conservatives are in any way defenders of individual liberty, the free market, and what Russell Kirk called "the permanent things," i.e., the sacred traditions that have accumulated over time to constitute the core of our Judeo-Christian culture,...
Now that President Bush has been reelected and Franks-Bremer-Tenet awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Washington Post has apparently decided to spill the beans about the true "weapons of mass destruction" threat. In particular, Dafna Linzer spilled the...
There has been a lot of talk about Humvees lately, ever since an American soldier asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why soldiers were going to war in unarmored vehicles. "We're digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already...
'Staying the Course' Won't Do The article by Pat Buchanan is EXCELLENT. As a lifelong antiwar protester, it is heartening to read that even the Republican party behind the mess in Iraq has concrete doubts about the direction we are taking. My husband is enlisted in...
