Young Mr. Bush and his handlers managed to squander more than two centuries of American progress. Two interminable armed conflicts and the economic collapse they produced left President Obama with the worst combination of foreign and domestic policy disasters in our...
The Washington Post is apparently losing lots of money and may close in the foreseeable future, barring a deus ex machina intervention by some foreign billionaire such as saved the New York Times. While the decline of newspapers worldwide is regrettable, the Post's...
Updated at 7:07 p.m. EST, March 16, 2009 At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 7 more were wounded during the latest attacks. One of the dead was a 12-year-old girl who was shot by U.S. troops in Mosul. One U.S. soldier was killed during combat in Baghdad. Also, Iraqi...
There is a great temptation to cut President Barack Obama a certain amount of slack over foreign policy just because he isn't George W. Bush. He has a certain capacity for acknowledging and perhaps even thinking through complexities, and he was right about the Iraq...
Because one man, conceding defeat, didn't issue the typical statement indicating that he preferred to spend more time with his family, and instead launched a frontal attack on those who had attacked him, the foreign policy equation in Washington might have changed in...
Returning home from a very short visit to London, I found the country in the grip of uncontrollable emotions. No, it was not about the looming danger of the radical Right gaining control. It is now almost certain that the next government will consist of an assorted...
The Israeli Left may be the latest casualty of last month's war in Gaza. The fighting appears to have scuttled what remains of the Israeli-Arab peace process, as a nationalist bloc of parties opposing territorial compromise with the Palestinians now occupies the...
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo is on vacation until Monday. As a reward for killing 1,400 Palestinians in the Gaza blitzkrieg, ignoring U.S. demands to stop the building of "settlements" on the West Bank, and vigorous efforts to breach our security and steal highly...
Updated at 7:15 p.m. EST, March 15, 2009 At least nine Iraqis were killed and three more were wounded in the latest attacks. Four PKK rebels of unknown nationality were killed. No wounded nor Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile former U.S. Vice President Dick...
With official announcements about a new strategy for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan expected in the coming weeks, details of the plan are starting to emerge in press accounts which describe a renewed focus on the war-torn Central Asian country and its volatile...
