Backtalk, August 7, 2007

Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran This article is extremely naive and one-sided. Believing that the Arab world will be peaceful if left alone is as naive as Dubya's thinking Americans would be viewed a liberators in Iraq. It completely ignores the the history of the...

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White Elephants

The king of Siam knew how to deal with domestic opponents: he would present them with a white elephant. White elephants are rare in nature, and therefore sacred. Being sacred, they may not be put to work. But even a sacred elephant does eat, and eat a lot. Enough to...

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She Stands at Every Door

At a small, informal school in the basement of a church in Amman, many strings of colorful paper cranes bedeck walls and windows. The school serves children whose families have fled Iraq. Older children who come to the school understand the significance of the crane...

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Bill Kristol and
the Stink of Fear

How, in the name of all that's holy, could a rational human being look at what's going on in Iraq and hold out any hope of "success" for America's colonial project? The American and Iraqi casualty rates are soaring, the government of Iraq is collapsing, the Turks are...

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Remembering Hiroshima

Editor's note: The following is an encore presentation of David R. Henderson's column of July 31, 2006. Sometimes, something happens that is so awful that we find ourselves rationalizing it, talking as if it had to happen, to make ourselves feel better about the...

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Israel’s Jewish Problem in Tehran

Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the...

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