The spectacle of an American secretary of state being sent to Europe to reassure America's allies that the U.S. does not torture prisoners has brought an end to America's moral grandeur. America stands revealed before the world as just another unaccountable police...
When they finally hang Saddam Hussein, we'll probably miss him. He has, after all, been an obsession of American politicians since 1991. Since the Washington media obsess over whatever the politicians obsess over, Saddam's face has adorned our television screens for...
On a Thanksgiving visit home two years ago to his family in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Jim Loney tried to explain to his father why he wanted to go to Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams. He told his Dad about a grade school chum, Rick, sent to Afghanistan with the...
The "usually disengaged" president, as columnist Maureen Dowd labeled him, had just returned from a prolonged, brush-cutting Crawford vacation to much criticism and a nation in trouble. (One Republican congressman complained that "it was hard for Mr. Bush to get his...
Last month the New York Times reported that unnamed senior "intelligence officials" had told them that – as part of a campaign to increase international pressure on Iran – they had "briefed" International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed...
Dreams "are chief nourishers in life's feast," wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth. Indeed, while dreams offer a private means to explore inner reality and to gain unique, undeniable, personal experiences, psychologists also recognize that there is overwhelming...
Christmas came 11 days early for Donald Rumsfeld two years ago when the news broke that American forces had pulled Saddam Hussein from a spidery hole. During interviews about the capture, on CBS and ABC, the Pentagon's top man was upbeat. And he didn't have to deal...
With Harb al-Mukhtar and Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - After the U.S. forces and the bombings, Iraqis are coming to fear those bands of men in masks who seem to operate with the Iraqi police. Omar Ahmed's family learned what it can mean to run into the police, their supposed...
I am still inclined to believe that what we are seeing in the president's series of speeches is the beginning of a change of policy toward gradual withdrawal of a substantial number of U.S. troops from Iraq, although it is apparently not in this president's makeup to...
Arianna Huffington's love affair with John McCain – it's over! No, I don't mean that kind of love affair, silly. The glamorous Grecian is pouting and bitterly disappointed because suddenly the man of her dreams is showing his true colors as a two-timing,...
