We live with an administration whose concept of domestic "freedom" went out with those "freedom fries," briefly sold at the cafeterias of the House of Representatives. The Bush team has quite literally been a force for darkness. For those who remember the "memory...
China: Fragile Superpower
Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 320 pp. The People's Republic of China (PRC) seems destined for superpower status. Already the world's most populous nation, the PRC has been enjoying one of globe's highest rates of...
Thursday: 1 GI, 49 Iraqis Killed; 45 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Sept. 7, 2007At least 49 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 45 more were wounded in the latest violence. One American servicemember was killed in a non-combat incident yesterday. Meanwhile, security experts are questioning the methodology...
Rights Group: Vows Not to Torture Worth Little
Repatriated Guantánamo Bay detainment camp prisoners have once again been mistreated at the hands of their home countries despite "diplomatic assurances" of humane treatment made to the US government, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. The...
With Donkeys for Transport, All Is Well
FALLUJAH - A brave new attempt is under way to project that all is well now with Fallujah. Residents know better – or worse. Former Iraqi minister of state for foreign affairs Rafi al-Issawi visited Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad, Aug. 22. Issawi, who resigned...
Drawing the Line
Future historians studying the decline and fall of the American Empire will probably focus on George W. Bush's disastrous Iraqi adventure – the modern-day equivalent of Alcibiades' Sicilian expedition – to explain the pathology of a global hyper-power....
Who Are The Fanatics?
President Jimmy Carter was demonized for pointing out in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, that there are actually two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Distinguished American scholars, such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have suffered the same...
Syria and Iran: The Threats That Aren’t
In reference to coercive British rule, Tom Paine once told Americans that there is something absurd about the idea that the entire continent of North America should be forever ruled by the little island of Great Britain. Paine, as always in his work, was trying to...
Thucydides vs.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson, previously a classics professor at Fresno State specializing in the military history of ancient Greece and currently embedded at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is a fervent apologist for the Bush administration's interventionist foreign...
Wednesday: 10 GIs, 51 Iraqis Killed; 65 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT, Sept. 6, 2007At least 51 Iraqis were killed and 65 wounded during attacks that included bombing civilians in Sadr City and Mosul. Ten American soldiers were also killed in separate events. Two GIs were killed today and another was wounded...