Six months in jail – for a wanton murder. That's fair, now isn't it? It is if the victim is Iraqi, and the murderers are four American soldiers – that's what a military court recently decided, and it's a verdict that tells us everything we need to know about...
Ms. Anne Applebaum is shocked – shocked! – at conservatives' blasé attitude toward torture. Don't they know that attorney general-designate Alberto Gonzales wrote memos seeking ways to legally immunize U.S. government officials from prosecution under the War...
USA Today reports the Bush administration will ask for $100 billion to cover the latest "off-budget" costs of the Iraq war, and notes the response of Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.): "I hope they ask for something big. Look, this is a test of wills. We need to show...
The idea that today's conservatives are in any way defenders of individual liberty, the free market, and what Russell Kirk called "the permanent things," i.e., the sacred traditions that have accumulated over time to constitute the core of our Judeo-Christian culture,...
If 2003 was the year of the liars, as I opined last year, then 2004 was the year of the war criminals, starting with Time magazine's designated Man of the Year, criminal-in-chief George W. Bush. It was Bush who presided over the torture and abuse not only at Abu...
Why are American soldiers dying in Iraq? The rationale has shifted as the months turn into years. "Weapons of mass destruction" – Saddam's nonexistent links to al-Qaeda – the Laurie Mylroie conspiracy theory that links Iraq to every ill under the sun, and...
Justin Logan, a research assistant in the foreign policy studies program at the Cato Institute, has come up with a useful new term: "Can we get a name for inappropriately invoking the appeasement of Nazis? This is a tactic frequently used by neocons and various sundry...
I don't believe in God, but the Devil is another matter entirely. Proof of the Malevolent One's existence is all around us, and he's been pretty busy lately – filling the military hospitals with the wounded (30,000-plus so far), torturing and otherwise abusing...
"For the first time," a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows, "most say the Iraq war was a mistake." Not to worry, however, because "a strong majority of Americans, 58 percent, support keeping military forces in Iraq until 'civil order is restored,' even in the face of...
Justin Raimondo is taking the day off. His column will return Wednesday. In the 1950s, when the cold war was at its height, a series of spectacular espionage scandals – involving top-level spies for the Soviet Union, our former WWII ally – roiled American...
