‘Fisking’ or ‘Hendersoning’?

My previous article on Antiwar.com, "Fisking Feith's Faulty Case for War," led to an unusually high number of thoughtful criticisms. The feedback I typically get to my articles on Antiwar.com falls into one of two categories: (1) agreement with me on pretty...

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Monday: 24 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded

Updated at 8:34 p.m. EDT, July 21, 2008At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. A home belonging to the family of a pro-U.S. MP was blown up in Baghdad, but no one was hurt. Also, bombs targeted...

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A Brazen Evil

Evil usually hides its face, because the sight of it repulses all but the depraved. However, in the case of Benny Morris, writing in Friday's New York Times, we see something new: a proud evil, glorying in pure malevolence. His piece is a cold, calculated attempt to...

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An Opening to Iran?

There seem to be two possibilities, according to several experts and sources I talked to last week, to explain the fact that the United States decided to have Undersecretary of State William Burns, the third-ranking person in the State Department, sit in the same room...

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Sunday: 24 Iraqis Killed, 34 Wounded

Updated at 8:55 p.m. EDT, July 20, 2008At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 34 more were wounded during numerous but small attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported, but U.S. troops killed two relatives of a provincial governor in northern Iraq. Also, two foreign...

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Saturday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded

Updated at 11:06 p.m. July 19, 2008At least 13 Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported, but a British hostage may have killed himself.A militant group holding five British hostages has released a video in...

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Seismic Shift or Non-Decision by Bush on Iran?

The US decision to send the State Department's third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough, but it is...

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America First

Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to leave the continental U.S. It's too bad he wasn't also the last. Politicians and celebrities with an urge to see poverty only need to visit the Mississippi Delta or some of the neighborhoods in American cities. If they yearn...

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