Scott McClellan, the most significant defector from behind the Iron Curtain of the War Party's domain, doesn't think we were lied into war. According to him, it was all due to the "partisan" attitudes that dominate Washington discourse on every issue. As he puts it,...
Obama Capitulates
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to the U.S. is part of a concerted effort, by the Israeli government and its American lobbyists, to convince U.S. lawmakers and, most of all, President George W. Bush that the time to attack Iran is now. The...
Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party?
If you want to know what the future holds in store, just take a look at what John McCain said recently to the AIPAC conference: "Rather than sitting down unconditionally with the Iranian president or supreme leader in the hope that we can talk sense into them, we must...
Reclaiming the American Right
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,...
Standing Up Against the War Party
One has to wonder at the depths of deception engaged in by this administration when even their own spokesman turns against them. Scott McClellan, in his recent book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, avers that the White...
Into the Bosnian Quagmire, Part 3
Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic...
Into the Bosnian Quagmire, Part 2
Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic...
Into the Bosnian Quagmire
Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic...
No Rest for the Wicked
If you haven't already noticed, this is the third day of our quarterly fundraising drive, spring edition. I don't think I have to impress upon those who have been following the news lately the continuing relevance of Antiwar.com. Every day brings more indications of...
Bush’s True Calling
The unseemly spectacle of an American chief executive denouncing a Democratic presidential candidate in a foreign venue, in front of the parliament of a nation whose interests are inextricably intertwined with the issue at hand, has no precedent in our history. It's...


