Absurd Analogies Won’t
Stop Terrorism

Michael Chertoff, President Bush's secretary of Homeland Security, desperately tried to refute Zbigniew Brzezinski's cogent charge that the administration has hyped the "war on terror" to promote a "culture of fear," in a recent Washington Post opinion piece. In...

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The War Goes Ever On

Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature? The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis. The war persists despite warnings from U.S. generals that the stress is breaking the U.S. Army. The war persists despite its enormous costs in...

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We Just Marched In (So We Can Just March Out)

All the reasons given to justify a preemptive strike against Iraq were wrong. Congress and the American people were misled. Support for the war came from various special interests that had agitated for an invasion of Iraq since 1998. The Iraq Liberation Act, passed by...

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In Lebanon, Tempers Rise Over Reconstruction

BINT JBEIL, Lebanon - Eight months after Israeli attacks left devastation across many villages in southern Lebanon, reconstruction comes with mounting anger toward both Israel and the central Lebanese government. The war that raged between Israel and Hezbollah July 12...

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Into the Iraqi Diaspora

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on the disintegrating health situation in Iraq, where, according to the group, 100 people a day die, on average, and countless more are wounded. Of the injured who manage to make it to an emergency...

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Fanning Sectarian Fires
in the Middle East

In 1609, a terrible thing happened: not terrible in the manner that great wars are terrible but in the way that opening Pandora's Box was terrible. King James I of England discovered that dividing people on the basis of religion worked like a charm, thus sentencing...

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