Month: March 2009

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 country’s history. He faces a conundrum; he needs to take care of the economic … Continue reading “These Secretaries Can’t Even Type”

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 troubles are really good news, and bankruptcy would be a richly deserved … Continue reading “Washington Post Shows Its Hand”

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 troops beat an unknown number … Continue reading “Monday: 1 US Soldier, 11 Iraqis Killed; 7 Iraqis Wounded”

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 war before the invasion, for reasons that went beyond the … Continue reading “Groping in Afghanistan”

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 discernible ways last week. On withdrawing from his nomination as director of … Continue reading “The Freeman Affair”

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 bunch of settlers, explicit racists, and perhaps even … Continue reading “The Rape of Washington”

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 majority of Israel’s parliament. The right-wing Likud Party will lead the governing coalition, … Continue reading “The Israeli-Arab War Online”

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 classified information via its Washington fifth column, Tel Aviv has been reassured … Continue reading “Continuity and Change”

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 Cheney said that the U.S. has accomplished nearly everything it wanted … Continue reading “Sunday: 9 Iraqis, 4 PKK rebels Killed; 3 Iraqis Wounded”

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 neighbor, Pakistan. According to a series of interviews with administration officials, the … Continue reading “Perils Seen in Obama’s Afghan Strategy”