Excuse me if, at 62, and well into my second era of protest against yet another distant, disastrous, and disabling American war, I express a little confusion. Was it actually like this in Rome while the legions were off fighting on the German frontiers? Was this the...
The timing of the recent incident in which 15 British sailors were arrested by Iran at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway for purportedly entering Iranian waters couldn't have been more provocative if it had been planned that way. And perhaps it was. The question...
Updated at 1:08 a.m EST, March. 26, 2007Although there were less attacks today, at least 78 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead, and another 63 were wounded in violent incidents. The U.S. military reported that four American soldiers were killed today when a...
Past and present Congresspersons from across the political spectrum insist that if they had known then, what they know now, they would never have allowed President Bush to use the conditional authority they had provided him to launch a pre-emptive war against Iraq. Of...
Earlier this week another of the Bush administration hawks fairly quietly left the State Department, apparently upset at the deal the administration struck with North Korea. Robert Joseph occupied a "special perch" in the administration, according to David...
How seriously and to what ends is the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush willing to engage the new Palestinian government of national unity? As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes her seventh visit to the Middle East in the last eight months, that...
Updated at 12:28 a.m. EST, Mar. 25, 2007At least 128 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and another 160 were wounded in various incidents, including bomb attacks in Baghdad, Haswa, Qaim and Tal Afar. Also, A U.S. soldier was blasted dead in Baghdad on...
The March 14 Los Angeles Times contained that rarissima avis, good news from Ramadi: "The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq wanted some sweets, and nothing was going to stop him. Not even the fact that he was tramping through a neighborhood that only days ago had...
The times, they sure are a changin.' Why, it seems like only yesterday – although it was December 16, 1998 – that Nancy Pelosi opined: "As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological...
Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution Michael D. Tanner Cato Institute, 2007 321 pp. The Republican Party once presented itself – and was even widely thought of – as the party of limited government....
