Backtalk

Why Are They So Afraid of Ron Paul? Justin Raimondo describes Glenn Greenwald as having to choose between “liberal hawks and outright neocons.” It is the clarity of Ron Paul’s positions that is allowing people to finally realize that there is no difference between the liberal hawks and the neocons and that together they form … Continue reading “Backtalk, November 20, 2007”

Veterans Day: In Memoriam Dear Mr. Henderson, You might do better to quote British poet Wilfred Owen – especially "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est." Owen was a true peace advocate, although a member of the military himself. As you may know, he was one of the … Continue reading “Backtalk, November 10, 2007”

Aaron R. Linderman’s Backtalk First, being held “accountable” to a contract is not the same as being accountable to legal process – the remedy for violating terms of a contract are financial, not penal. Second, even so, the terms of this contract place primacy on diplomatic security without regard to the holistic counterinsurgency effort – … Continue reading “Backtalk, October 29, 2007”

The Mother of All Pretexts Uri Avnery’s “The Mother of All Pretexts” is carefully and subtly wrought, by a mind alive with the history of the region and its deeper nuances. Two points might be added. The idea of a “clash of civilizations” is not a new idea, but rooted in the study of the … Continue reading “Backtalk, October 20, 2007”

The Ron Paul Breakthrough Is he really antiwar?: “Paul Calls for Congressional Declaration of War with Iraq.“ ~ Roger Kulp Albuquerque Eric Garris replies: Ron Paul used the same tactic used by antiwar members of Congress for many years. In fact, his “Declare War” resolution was cosponsored by many antiwar Democrats. Mike Gravel did the … Continue reading “Backtalk, October 15 2007”

Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America? It is an egregious affront to George Kennan to portray him simply and completely as the man who invented the containment strategy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, then infer from that his posthumous support for the neocons’ calls for endless war against Islam. Kennan was firmly against the Vietnam War … Continue reading “Backtalk, September 29, 2007”

Petraeus Helps Destroy Bush’s ‘Proxy War’ Claim Why does the author accept the Bush Administration’s implicit premise that Iraqi users of EFPs are incapable of constructing their own weapons, and therefore must be getting them from Iran or Hezbollah? As a Google search of EFPs will instantly reveal, the technology is not new and has … Continue reading “Backtalk, September 21, 2007”

Ron vs. the Huckster It isn’t apparent from the broadcast program, but people in the audience weren’t actually booing Ron Paul when he was saying we should take our marching orders from the Constitution. In the middle of his remarks, Fox put up a video of Rudy’s reaction to his remarks. That’s what the audience … Continue reading “Backtalk, September 10, 2007”

Rudy Giuliani: Confused, Ignorant, or Deceitful? In his listing of “successful terrorism,” Mr. Bandow obviously forgot to mention the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which, more than anything else, drove the British out of the mandate. ~ Dieter Heymann Home Front ‘Surge’ I was not aware of Ed Snider’s connections to the … Continue reading “Backtalk, September 3, 2007”

Why Interventionism Fails There is another reason that foreign intervention has not and will never work: What would most Americans do if any foreign power was to come to our land and start to make decisions on our behalf? Answer: We would work night and day tirelessly and with all the resources and tactics at … Continue reading “Backtalk, August 23, 2007”