The George W. Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in May 2003 because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilization and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according...
Fasten Your Seat Belt
With the American raid on the Mustafa mosque, the occupation of Iraq is rapidly reaching a point at which it is no longer tenable: as the Shi'ite giant awakens, the country is about to become a battleground in a much larger war, one that will envelop much of the...
A War in Search of a Justification
On March 20, the twits at FrontPageMag.com interviewed Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot, who stated without a doubt that Saddam shipped WMD off to Syria on the eve of the Iraq invasion. McInerney was referring to documents he believes prove that...
After Iraq, Arabs Wary of ‘Western’ Democracy
DUBAI - In the evolving debate on reforms, Arab intellectuals and common people continue to emphasize the need for culture- and region-specific democratic reforms in the Middle East, and strongly oppose the imposition of Western models. Highlighting the difficulty of...
The Politics of PTSD
Recent news articles have reported that nearly 216,000 veterans diagnosed with PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder receive benefits from the Veterans Administration (VA). Most of these veterans are from the Vietnam period, and many, including myself,...
Bush Is No Conservative
President Bush passes himself off as a conservative Republican and a born-again Christian. These are disguises behind which Bush hides. Would a Christian invade another country on false pretenses, kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians, and show no remorse or...
City on the Edge of Forever
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Just as the gray houses and snow-covered ground emerge from the thick late-winter fog, the airplane banks sharply up, its engines straining for altitude. The captain apologizes; he could not see the landing lights, and on the...
What Is ‘Democracy’?
"If I must die, I will die," Abdul Rahman told a human rights worker. Facing execution for converting to Christianity, Rahman had just been moved from a jail in Kabul, where his life was in imminent peril, to the notorious Policharki prison outside Kabul, where 2,000...
Top Ten Mistakes the Bush Administration Is Repeating from Vietnam
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e060328.html
High Court Hears Historic Case on Detainees
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear what will almost certainly be one of the landmark cases of the past 50 years. Its decision will determine whether the Supreme Court will continue to assert its authority to review and check the executive's power to detain and...


