What if Karl Rove isn't guilty of knowingly leaking Valerie Plame's name as a covert CIA agent involved in nuclear proliferation issues? What if Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, is correct when he says that he's been assured by prosecutors that his client is not a target...
Last September, conservative columnist Robert Novak predicted the Bush administration would soon start withdrawing from Iraq: "Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year. This determination...
If you want to hear the voice of the War Party, listen to Efraim Halevi – and be very afraid. Director of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a former head of the Mossad, Halevi presents a clear, unabashed view of...
London's Terror Thursday establishes three realities beyond the shadow of a doubt: (1) the West is losing the "war on terrorism," (2) in our present strategic mode, we are essentially defenseless against al-Qaeda's offensive – I agree with Michael Scheuer, the...
Never mind all that folderol about Iraq's burgeoning insurgency: those bombs going off everywhere, the kidnappings, and the complete inability of the U.S.-installed Iraqi government to keep order in the streets of their own capital city – "The war is over," says...
All kinds of scandals are looming on the horizon, like summer storms sizzling with lightning: the resulting deluge may be enough to soak the War Party to the skin, and, in the process, prove oddly refreshing for the rest of us. First, the long-simmering Valerie Plame...
In an excellent piece in the UK's premier conservative magazine, the Spectator, Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist who covered the invasion from Centcom headquarters, sums up the present moment in Iraq quite well: "All in all, after more than two years of combat...
David Aaronovitch, formerly a Communist Party youth leader and now the freshest shoot in Britain's bumper crop of Blairite neocons, tried to smear me once before, and I dealt with him here. The Stalinist school of falsification never sleeps, however: its practitioners...
The idea that this is a Republican war, that we were lured into Iraq under false pretenses exclusively by George W. Bush and his neocon advisers, with no responsibility or input from the Democrats, is a partisan myth: we are in there, and are staying in there, to a...
The cry is going up to get us out of Iraq, and just as surely – and loudly – the counter-cry is also rising: don't "cut and run!" The neoconservatives' big guns are being wheeled out, with David Brooks and Max Boot – pontificating from the pages of the...
