There are a lot of bad things that one might say about Iran. The rule of the mullahs would be an unpleasant experience for most people, so much so that few outside of Hezbollah apparently want to emulate it. Opinion polls that attempt to assess favorable versus...
The Occupation Corrupts
I cannot say that I ever liked Ehud Olmert. But now I almost feel sorry for him. It is not pleasant to see how they pounce on him, like jackals and hyenas fighting over a carcass. And that also raises some questions. Was Olmert the only fallible human being in this...
Monday: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed, 60 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 9:10 p.m. EDT, June 2, 2008 1 US Soldier and at least 18 Iraqis were killed and 60 were wounded in the latest attacks. The US army reported that one of its soldiers died in a non-combat incident. US forces also killed two militants of unknown nationality...
Reclaiming the American Right
Editorial note: What follows was intended as the new introduction to my first book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, originally published by the Center for Libertarian Studies in 1993 and now reissued by ISI Books. However,...
The Movie-Made War World of George W. Bush
Here's a memory for you. I was probably five or six and sitting with my father in a movie house off New York's Times Square – one of the slightly seedy theaters of that dawn of the 1950s moment that tended to show double or triple feature B Westerns or war...
McClellan’s Warning on Iran
Stop! Please. Get beneath the hype over former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. Don't miss the forest for the trees. Not since John Dean told the truth about President...
Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 7 Iraqis Killed, 29 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 6:20 p.m. EDT, June 1, 2008 1 US Soldier and at least 7 Iraqis were killed and 29 Iraqis were wounded in the latest attacks, which largely centered around Baghdad and Diyala Province. The US Army reported that an explosively formed penetrator killed a US...