Updated at 11:20 p.m. EDT, July 24, 2007Today’s most significant event was a suicide bombing that killed or injured almost 100 in Hilla. Altogether, 59 Iraqis were killed and 103 were injured in the latest attacks. The DOD reported that one American...
Keeping Up Appearances
The Chinese government has responded to the product crises that resulted in deaths and recalls around the globe. The execution of State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiao Yu met with approval here in China, where death is seen as the only deterrent for...
A Trap for Fools
In a classical American Western, the difference is as glaring as the midday sun in Colorado: there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones are the settlers, who are making the prairie bloom. The bad ones are the Indians, who are bloodthirsty savages. The ultimate...
Democratic Doublespeak
on Iraq
Start with the simplest, most basic fudge. Newspapers and the TV news constantly report on various plans for the "withdrawal of American troops" from Iraq, when what's being proposed is the withdrawal of American "combat troops" or "combat brigades." This isn't a...
Will Bush Invade Pakistan?
Congress is finally going to defund a repressive and increasingly unpopular U.S.-backed government that is currently engaged in a losing conflict with Islamic radicals and is endangered by rising anti-Americanism in the country. The current regime is not among the...
Monday: 3 GIs, 104 Iraqis Killed; 114 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:45 p.m. EDT, July 23, 2007A series of car bombings in Baghdad today left dozens dead and injured. Overall, 104 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 114 more were wounded in violence throughout Iraq. Three American servicemembers were killed in separate...
Sunday: 78 Iraqis Killed, 69 Injured
Updated at 12:35 a.m. EDT, July 23, 2007At least 78 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 69 Iraqis were wounded in various incidents. An attack at a meeting near Taji left a number of Sunni leaders dead or injured. No foreign casualties were reported.In Baghdad, 21...
Suicide Bombings Demoralize Security Forces
PESHAWAR - A week-long campaign of suicide bombings that killed more than 130 people across Pakistan, has seriously demoralized security personnel in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, that have become a safe haven for the Taliban and the al-Qaeda. Directed at...
Getting It Wrong
It's not a bad idea to step back a few paces and remember the track record of those doing the estimating. Any discussion of a threat estimate from the vaunted U.S. intelligence "community" must begin with an acknowledgment that U.S. intelligence has often...
Will US Finally End Cluster Bomb Exports?
At the end of June, a few members of the US Congress made a discreet move to limit this country's exports of cluster bombs, a weapon that has been used around the world since the Second World War to devastating humanitarian consequences. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat...


