That the rhetoric used to justify war against Iraq sounds eerily similar to the case being made to start a war against Iran and Syria is not purely a coincidence. Many of the advocates of a muscular policy against countries regarded as outside the pale or perceived as...
The boycott by Israel and the international community of the Palestinian Authority finally blew up in their faces with Hamas' recent bloody takeover of Gaza. Or so argues Gideon Levy, one of the saner voices still to be found in Israel. "Starving, drying up, and...
"I may be dangerous," he said, "but I am not wicked. No, I am not wicked." - Henry James, The American It was a failed administration's ritual scapegoating, the ousting last winter of its ruinous secretary of defense. But in the sauve qui peut confirmation of his...
This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, released today. Why would the president, in the midst of substantial and growing cooperation with the Iranians, suddenly decree Iran in 2002 to be part...
Five years after His Highness G.W. Bush – president of the United States of America, czar of Afghanistan, emperor of Iraq, democratizer of the Middle East, etc., etc. – launched his "Road Map for Peace in the Middle East," announcing a Palestinian state...
CAIRO - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised many last month when he announced his country's readiness to reestablish diplomatic relations with Egypt. But last week the Egyptian foreign ministry appeared to dash hopes for rapprochement, describing Iran's...
As Iraq struggles to define its future, there is one important group that has been largely left out of the process: women. But they are refusing to be left behind. With little international support or media attention, a network of more than 150 women's organizations...
Updated at 11:50 p.m. EDT, June 26, 2007During a quiet news day, 42 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 21 more were wounded during several small incidents. Four American servicemember deaths were reported.An American soldier was killed today in Diwaniyah during...
Goodbye and Good Luck Mr. Reese states: "Since we stupidly decided to have an all-volunteer Army, we can't afford too much cannon fodder." Is it Mr. Reese's position that the United States should have a drafted army, rather than an all-volunteer military? I would like...
To look at Fred Thompson, the actor-cum-senator who now appears to be moving to the front of the GOP presidential pack, one would think that what you see is what you get – but, no. Peel back the pretty ordinary red-state Republican opinions – the war is a...
