Did you know that there are five police academies in Iraq that produce over 3,500 new officers every eight weeks? Well, if you're among the millions of recipients of that "Did You Know?" e-mail proliferating on the Internet, you "know" that "fact" along with a whole...
The Bush administration seems to be drawing the outlines of a strategy to oust Syria's President Bashar Assad and his ruling Ba'ath Party. Of course, no one is considering an American-led military invasion à la Iraq to achieve "regime change" in Damascus....
When 46 Republican senators vote against the torture of prisoners (total vote 90-9) and President Bush threatens his first veto in five years in order to thwart them, many Americans must wonder about the political and philosophical divide. Top-ranking generals...
The idea animating U.S. foreign policy at the moment is simple: if we "democratize" the Middle East – at gunpoint if necessary, peacefully if possible – we can "drain the swamp" of terrorism and defeat the worldwide Islamist insurgency that is now arrayed...
Finishing the Balkans Interventions Just days after the anniversary of Serbia's misnamed "revolution," three things came to pass that suggest a next stage of Balkans tragedy is getting underway. First, the Bosnian Serbs caved in and approved the European...
Five days before Saturday's referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution, the U.S. foreign policy elite appears both anxious and gloomy, increasingly worried that win or lose, the process will bring Iraq one step closer to civil war and, with it, the possible...
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When the Bush administration fires off a new round of speechifying about "the war on terror," the U.S. press rarely goes beyond the surface meanings of rhetoric provided by White House scriptwriters. But the president's big speech at the National Endowment for...
George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his Oct. 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine the National Endowment for Democracy, the president of the United States said: "Today there...
The Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) begins by affirming "that all parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for – and to contribute alone or in cooperation with other...
