A few months back, I wrote back-to-back weekly messages regarding globalism and isolationism. In writing those columns, I focused on the fact that our nation's interventionist foreign policy was precisely what was isolating us from other countries. Turkey's recall of...
Before the invasion of Iraq, while millions demonstrated in the streets, often waving homemade placards with "No Blood for Oil" – or equivalents like "Don't Trade Lives for Oil" and like "How Did USA's Oil Get Under Iraq's Sand?" – the Bush administration...
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Winter came early this year in the Balkans mountains; the first snow of the season has come and gone, leaving the streets of the capital a soggy mess. As late as last week, Sarajevo's thousands of cafés still had their summer...
Insisting that the recent transition in Cuba represents "the dying gasps of a failed regime," US President George W. Bush Wednesday vowed to maintain Washington's nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba until its government "has adopted in word...
Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, Oct. 25, 2007At least 65 Iraqis were killed and 30 more were wounded in the latest violence. Tensions also continue at the Turkish border. And, the Sadrist bloc urged Mahdi Army members throughout the country to give up their arms. Turkish...
It's fun sometimes to collect current clichés, which are worn-out uses of the language, such as "at the end of the day." Why can't we just say at twilight or after the sun sets? Another cliché is "you can run but you can't hide."...
We keep hearing about the "liberal," "antiwar" media, which is supposedly spinning the "success" of the administration's "surge" in Iraq into a defeat. The stab-in-the-back thesis is being run up the flagpole by the neocons, in...
Spurred by the deployment of at least 100,000 troops along Turkey's border with Iraq, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is pressing its closest clients in Iraqi Kurdistan to crack down hard against the Kurdish Turkish Workers' Party (PKK), which...
Updated at 11:52 p.m. EDT, Oct. 24, 2007At least 46 Iraqis were killed and 61 were wounded in the latest violence. Also, 34 PKK rebels were killed when Turkish forces crossed the border into northern Iraq. Two American servicemembers were killed in separate...
They came in as unreformed Cold Warriors, only lacking a cold war – and looking for an enemy: a Russia to roll back even further, rogue states like Saddam's rickety dictatorship to smash. They were still in the old fight, eager to make sure that the "Evil...
