Conservatives, especially neoconservatives, and even some pro-Israeli moderates and liberals admire Israel's use of muscular tactics to safeguard its security. Many conservatives also admire Robert E. Lee's aggressive, offense-oriented tactical victories in the U.S....
BEIRUT - About 55 percent of all casualties at the Beirut Government University Hospital are children of 15 years of age or less, hospital records show. "This is worse than during the Lebanese civil war," Bilal Masri, assistant director of the hospital, one...
The United States is using authoritarian Arab leaders, who fear that Iran could export its revolutionary political model to their disgruntled populations and are concerned about Washington's reprisal against them à la Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as a buffer between...
In a perfect world, military power would match the brainpower of the people who wield it. Alas, it's not a perfect world, and the mismatch between power and smarts is sometimes wider than the Grand Canyon. Remember when Paul Wolfowitz was in the Defense Department?...
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There never was any doubt of the Bush regime's complicity in Israel's naked aggression against the Lebanese civilian population. Bush has protected Israel from world condemnation. Bush has blocked those who attempted to bring a stop to Israel's bombing of residential...
Anyone who has spent time in Turkey will find its people civil, generous, educated, and open-minded. Just don't mention the Kurds. The day after I zigzagged through a sloped, ramshackle enclave to reach the ancient Alexandrian fort of Kadifekale overlooking the port...
NEW DELHI - After securing sympathy and support for fighting terrorism from the G-8 grouping of the world's wealthiest countries in St. Petersburg, the Indian government is coming under pressure to harden its response to the recent Mumbai serial bombings, which killed...
BEIRUT - Much of Beirut is a devastated city: infrastructure in many areas lies in a shambles after the Israeli bombing. But the Lebanese are also feeling devastated. "Does our country not have the right to move forward like other democracies?" asks Nidal...
Last week, Attorney General Alberto J. Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the president had personally shut down a Justice Department investigation into the domestic eavesdropping program being run by the National Security Agency. According...
