On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an armistice was signed that ended World War I, the first great bloodletting of the twentieth century, "the war to end all wars" that proved but the prelude to World War II. Now, here we are at the 11th day...
Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, US President George W Bush has campaigned in one presidential contest (04) and two Congressional races (02 and 2004) as a victorious "War President." Mr. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress chalked up one...
Democratic majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, will not necessarily mean major changes for the war in Iraq, analysts say. That's primarily because it is the president, and not...
Several weeks ago, a gaggle of prominent neo-crazies, including Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, David Frum, Kenneth Adelman and Michael Rubin, railed on the record in Vanity Fair magazine against the incompetent implementation by President Bush and Secretary of Defense...
A glance at Donald Rumsfeld's biography will tell you that he is: (1) ambitious; (2) bright; (3) competent; and (4) incredibly experienced in both the private sector and the public sector. So how did the 74-year-old secretary of defense become the bad guy of the Bush...
The wild, drunken neocon joyride is over. After running as the candidate of national restraint and humility, George W. Bush metamorphosed into a modern Alexander the Great, promising to bring civilization and democracy to both the known and unknown worlds. He...
(Full disclosure: Ray McGovern is indebted to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld for TV notoriety on May 4, when McGovern's impromptu questioning after a Rumsfeld speech in Atlanta elicited denials later shown to be false after fact-checks by the TV networks. McGovern's...
Leave it to the Americans to consider their foreign policy in terms of a family drama: the current narrative is that Rummy's exit signals the arrival of Daddy's Wise Men to bail out Junior from the mess he's made in the Iraqi sandbox. Like a frat boy who has maxed out...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In its departure they see the end of remaining hopes for the reconstruction of Iraq. "It is much worse than in the...
Updated at 9:40 p.m. EST, Nov. 10, 2006 So far today, 62 Iraqis have been killed or found dead and another 20 wounded throughout the country. Thanks in part to a regular curfew set in place to protect religious observers, violence in Iraq generally tapers off on...
