WASHINGTON - Large majorities of Iraqis believe that the United States has no intention of ever withdrawing all its military forces from their country and that Washington's reconstruction efforts have been incompetent at best, according to a new survey [.pdf] released...
The theme of Eugene Jarecki's thoughtful yet hard-hitting documentary, Why We Fight, is inspired by President Dwight Eisenhower's famous farewell speech, in which he warns against the rising danger of militarism as an economic system and a mindset: "This conjunction...
It has been often said that war is the health of the state – but the argument could also be made that the reverse is more true: that the state is the health of war. In other words, that war – the greatest of all human evils – is impossible without the...
Now that he's under pressure to defend his domestic spying program, President Bush is suddenly very worried about Osama bin Laden. And Bush says if we had any sense, we'd also be worried about bin Laden and stop bitching about the loss of our Fourth Amendment rights....
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After four years of intense debate, President Bush has apparently decided to override President Carter and Greenpeace and "close the fuel cycle." Carter had essentially prohibited the "recycling" of "spent" nuclear fuel and required all...
Scott McConnell is the editor of The American Conservative, a magazine he founded with Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos in 2002. McConnell has a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and was formerly the editorial page editor of The New York Post. He has been...
Two major revelations this past week show how far the George W. Bush administration has already shifted its policy toward realignment with Sunni forces to balance the influence of pro-Iranian Shi'ites in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad revealed in an interview...
Success, money, and the sort of competence that looks effortless – Google, the company behind the world's best search engine, has it all. It was therefore only a matter of time before ideologues, cretins, and government regulators – or do I repeat myself?...
Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act ReauthorizationIf people only knew that it's a question of jurisdiction: a FEDERAL police force can only have jurisdiction over FEDERAL areas and territories. They do not (cannot) have jurisdiction in the states unless the states give...
