Month: June 2008

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 unfavorable impressions among the world’s nations invariably place … Continue reading “Iran Accusations Merit Skepticism”

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 paradise? Not at all. … Continue reading “The Occupation Corrupts”

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 northwest of Tikrit during anti-al-Qaeda operations. … Continue reading “Monday: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed, 60 Iraqis Wounded”

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, with a new introduction by Georgetown political scientist George W. Carey and critical … Continue reading “Reclaiming the American Right”

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 movies. We were catching … Continue reading “The Movie-Made War World of George W. Bush”

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 Richard Nixon’s crimes have we had an account by a very close … Continue reading “McClellan’s Warning on Iran”

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 soldier in northeastern Baghdad. Also, two US soldiers … Continue reading “Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 7 Iraqis Killed, 29 Iraqis Wounded”