Month: June 2007

Updated at 12:24 a.m., EDT, June 2, 2007Residents of Baghdad’s Amiriya neighborhood spent a second day holed up indoors in fear of ongoing clashes between rival militant groups. No casualties were as yet reported there, but at least 114 Iraqis were killed in other incidents and 87 more were wounded. Three American soldiers were killed … Continue reading “Friday: 114 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 87 Iraqis Injured”

Despite President George W. Bush’s victory last week in his protracted battle with Congressional Democrats for unconditional funding for the Iraq war at least through September, his administration appears to have given up hope that it can maintain his "surge" strategy well into next year and even beyond. A slew of news articles and columns … Continue reading “Surge Dirge”

A few Hannitized dittobots are not worth the effort in debating the Iraq war. I’ve come to reply in kind to those who scream “treason” or rudely tell me that I don’t “support the troops.” Usually, my drippingly sarcastic reply to the irreconcilably rude goes something like this: “Oh, I see. Only those who want … Continue reading “Carpet-bombing the Clichés”

The United States dominates the globe, but analysts who make a living proclaiming America to be the essential nation, the unipower, the global rulemaker and policeman, are nervous. China refuses to remain supine and is increasingly investing in its military. U.S. policymakers who believe in inevitable and unending American global hegemony can glimpse the emergence … Continue reading “A New Peril from the East?”

The bloody battles that have erupted around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after the "Nakba,” the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is again the center of attention throughout the world. This is an open wound. Anyone who … Continue reading “To the Shores of Tripoli”

America’s bipartisan governing elite never expected their common interventionist foreign policy to be damned by a man who has long worked among that august group. But Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) proved himself not only a political maverick, but one of the few elected federal officials who still prizes – indeed, treasures is a better word … Continue reading “Rep. Paul and the Founders versus Our Interventionist Elite”