Left and Right vs. the PATRIOT Act

In a political environment more fractious than Washington has seen in over a decade, there are still signs that Left and Right can find common ground. A current example is a coalition of conservative interest groups that has joined forces with the American Civil...

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Watch Out for Kurdistan

"Watch out for Kurdistan," I tell everyone I know. It may take a few years, but Iraq will be cut up into two, possibly three, countries – and the Kurds will be the first to go. Already, northern Iraq is hardly one with the rest of the country. In the...

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Cheney’s Other Trick NIE?

Hats off to journalist Dafna Linzer and Sunday's Washington Post for exposing a familiar but fallacious syllogism favored by senior Bush administration officials: Iran has a lot of oil. Ergo, Iran does not need nuclear energy for civil purposes. Ergo, Iran's nuclear...

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Draft Needed to Bail Out Neocons

One of the favorite fantasies of right-wing talk radio and Fox "News" is that only Bush-hating liberals oppose the Iraq war and additional U.S. military incursions into the Middle East or wherever. Yet, it is the March issue of the Washington Monthly, a...

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How the East Was Won

On the first day of Kyrgyzstan's "daffodil revolution," photogenic girls smilingly offered daffodils to police guarding the presidential palace, but in a few hours those same guards were being pushed back and beaten by drunken crowds, who surged into the seat of...

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Howard Dean Still Selling Out the Antiwar Movement

It was just over two years ago that I learned a little-known "antiwar" Democrat from Vermont was planning to run for president. At a rally on the eve of Bush's Iraq invasion, a fellow protester handed me a leaflet touting the now infamous Howard Dean, hoping that the...

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Backtalk, March 28, 2005

An Evil Little WarMr. Malic, though entirely correct in his appraisal of the outrage, alas, offers no reason for it. What may we ask was this war waged for? Was it strategic, for minerals, or because Milosevic couldn't be bribed to sell out his country and join the EU...

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