A US-Made Mess in Somalia

The media often reports overseas developments but doesn't always explore their underlying causes, which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S. government off the hook. The recent internecine violence in Somalia provides a classic example. The U.S. media has...

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What a Lack of Courage Cost

As Chairman Carl Levin of Senate Armed Services conceded Sunday, Congress is not going to de-fund the war in Iraq, even if Bush vetoes every Democratic timetable for withdrawal. The war will go on – backed by a Democratic Congress. If Majority Leader Reid is not...

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The Theater of the
Imperially Absurd

One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. I had never heard of the playwright or the play, nor had I seen a play performed in the round. The actors were dramatically entering and exiting in...

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Easter Holiday Break

The Easter holiday celebration took up a lot more of my Sunday afternoon than I had planned, and so there's no column today: sorry about that. I do, however, have a new column at Taki's Top Drawer that I think you'll like, so please check it out. I'm also going to be...

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How Much Is the Iraq War Costing You?

In a previous article, "How Much is the Iraq War Costing You? Part 1," I laid out the facts and figures about the monetary cost of the Iraq war to U.S. taxpayers, assuming conservatively a low-end estimate of annual spending on the Iraq war. I concluded that the main...

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More Mainstream Media Obfuscation

On March 17, 2003, ten days after the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency publicly reported to the UN Security Council that, "One, there is no indication of resumed nuclear activities in those buildings that were identified through the use of...

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Lamenting Lack of War

Well, as I predicted a few days ago, the release of the British hostages/captives/whatever has been quickly followed by lamentations and gnashing of teeth. As David Pryce-Jones put it on Thursday over at National Review Online, "now is the time for...

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