TYRE - The explosion ripped through the tiny garden in rural south Lebanon, hurling Naemah Ghazi to the ground. The shrapnel from the bomb sliced through her legs, and she rapidly lost consciousness. "There was a lot of blood," her mother Khadija recalls. "All her...
The June issue of Commentary featured a long article by Norman Podhoretz, the godfather of the neoconservatives, titled "The Case for Bombing Iran." A shorter version of the article had already been published in the Wall Street Journal, and the piece itself was...
The Ron Paul Breakthrough Is he really antiwar?: "Paul Calls for Congressional Declaration of War with Iraq." ~ Roger Kulp Albuquerque Eric Garris replies: Ron Paul used the same tactic used by antiwar members of Congress for many years. In fact, his "Declare War"...
The great "mystery" arising out of the recent Israeli strike at Syria – purportedly targeting a nuclear-related site near the town of Dair El Zor in the northern part of the country – has been the subject of much speculation, but its real purposes...
A friend and colleague of mine at the Hoover Institution, Peter Robinson, wrote a book a few years ago titled How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life. In this excellent book, Peter tells of how his time as a speechwriter for Reagan changed his life in a good way. Peter, by...
Updated at 12:06 p.m. EDT, Oct. 15, 2007At least 46 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 76 more were wounded in the latest violence. Figures may yet rise in two separate attacks, which occurred in Diwaniya and Balad. No foreign military deaths were reported. The DOD...
Updated at 11:54 p.m. EDT, Oct. 14, 2007Due to the holiday news blackout, a significant suicide bombing yesterday in Samarra went unreported until today. Overall, at least 69 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 74 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Most were...
The United States sells death, destruction, and terror as a fundamental instrument of its foreign policy. It sees arms sales as a way of making and keeping strategic friends and tying countries more directly to U.S. military planning and operations. At its simplest,...
Just now it's Blackwater USA that's in the spotlight due to the shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead on September 16, and a history of being more aggressive than most in their duties of guarding U.S. diplomats and other various hangers-on. The Iraqi government, in a...
A resolution recognizing as "genocide" the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the former Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago has gained the sponsorship of a majority of members in the US House of Representatives. But it has also drawn heavy criticism from...
