Two-and-a-half years ago, I warned Antiwar.com readers that the fix was in at the 9/11 Commission, that the Bush administration had a powerful friend on the inside who would whitewash its pre-9/11 failings. My worst fears have been confirmed by Bob Woodward. We now...
From Kosovo to Iraq
If you're an antiwar conservative or libertarian, remember when it was OK to oppose the war but support the troops? Remember when it was OK to "criticize your commander in chief during a time of war" without committing treason? Remember when you weren't...
A New Kind of Neocon?
Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of the National Interest, a foreign-policy magazine affiliated with the Nixon Center in Washington, D.C., has recently been trying to revitalize the stale discourse on U.S. global strategy in the capital of the world's only remaining...
How Not to Handle
Iran’s Nuke Aspirations
The nuclear test by North Korea has created a major tremor among Bush administration officials and the Democrats. The brunt of the debate is whether the Bush administration or the Clinton administration is responsible for Kim Jong-Il's latest move. Sen. Hillary...
Why We Still Fight
At least 32 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month. Approximately 300 have been wounded. The "battle for Baghdad" is going nowhere. A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn't get any better while I was there, and it's not going to get...
Iraq Brings Wounds That Deepen With Time
A new report in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that while a high percentage of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many do not show symptoms right away. "We can only speculate about why...
Bush Has Achieved
America’s Demise
When does "collateral damage" so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide? Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives. That is the conclusion of a study financed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International...
Jim Baker, Savior?
For the many, many foreign policy experts who have reached an advanced state of despair over the ever-plunging image and influence of the United States after nearly six years of the presidency of George W. Bush, the name James Baker III has an almost talismanic...
157 Iraqis, 2 Americans Killed Across Iraq on Thursday
Updated 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 12, 2006 Today in Iraq, one American army contractor was reported to have died and two others were injured in a roadside bomb attack. U.S. military authorities are also reporting that one soldier was killed and two injured in Kirkuk,...
Could Arar Blunder Happen Again?
TORONTO - Washington's preemptive war, in which Muslims are picked up, labeled Islamic terrorists, and then sent to a foreign state where under torture they confess wrongly to membership in al-Qaeda, is at the heart of what happened to an innocent Canadian citizen,...


