This morning's [March 27] New York Times has yet another story about the developing split within the Bush administration over foreign policy, with the partisans of Donald Rumsfeld, unreconstructed cold warrior, versus Colin Powell's (relatively) noninterventionist...
THE MYSTERY OF SELF-CRUCIFIXION What I don't get is this: how come American born-again Christians slavishly rationalize the casual brutalities of Israel's every twist and turn, close their eyes to the killing of Palestinian children, and hail the butcher Ariel Sharon...
Breathtaking in its scope, monumental in its sheer brazenness, the hypocrisy of Wesley K. Clark – former supreme commander of American occupation forces in Europe during the Kosovo war – is an awesome sight to behold. This perfumed prince of the military...
On March 24, 1999, at 1858 GMT, NATO warplanes attacked Yugoslav positions outside Pristina and Belgrade – and the Albanian juggernaut was launched. By March 24, 2001, that juggernaut will have rolled deep into Macedonia, while the suddenly "non-interventionist"...
If you want an example of multiculturalism in practice, you have only to look at Macedonia – which is now exploding in a paroxysm of inter-ethnic violence. The Albanian minority in that war-torn nation has been accommodated and coddled to a degree that even our...
I take great pleasure in my job as a columnist and editorial director of Antiwar.com: what could be more enjoyable than the life of a pundit, sitting around commenting on the wicked ways of the world? But sometimes, especially lately, it becomes downright depressing:...
When we first set up Antiwar.com, and started covering the outrages of the Kosovo war on a daily basis, we got a lot of emails asking essentially the same question: Why Kosovo? Here, after all, was a Balkan backwater that very few Americans had even heard of, and...
Encouraged by campaign talk about the virtues of "humility" on the world stage, many hoped that the incoming administration would turn over a new leaf when it comes to foreign policy – or, at least, rake away some of the moldy old leaves left on the White House...
In my last column, I celebrated the impending death of Salon.com, the main cyber-repository of liberalism at its most pretentious, and now it is only fair to follow it up with an obituary for National Review – or, at least, the National Review that once was. Once...
One aspect of the dot-com downturn – aside from the sudden sprouting of "For Rent" signs all over San Francisco – is the plethora of obituaries for the Internet, and dot-com journalism in general. No less an authority than Howard Kurtz, media maven of the...
