Pentagon Panel: US Invasions Unite Extremists

Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that Bush administration policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world, and a lack of...

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Iran’s Stealthy Nukes

Apparently President Bush believes he has been given another four years to subvert and/or replace the half-dozen or so regimes he deems to be either a threat to the "freedom" of its citizens or to our "national security." Iran is at the top of his list. How else to...

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Instead of a Column

Well, I tried to write a column for today, but even I have social obligations during the holiday season – which could not be reconciled with the effort that goes into producing 1000-plus words, complete with links and a unifying theme. So tune in next week, on...

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What Became of Conservatives?

I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative...

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Colombian Illusions

President Bush probably wanted to burnish his self-styled reputation as a fierce opponent of terrorism who has conflated other conflicts with the all-encompassing and likely generations-long War on Terror and can celebrate success wherever his writ runs. But in...

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China-Iran Tango Threatens US Leverage

BEIJING - Even as Iran pledges suspension of its uranium-enrichment program to avert United Nations sanctions, U.S.-led international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear capabilities are being undermined by the emergence of an ever stronger partnership between China and...

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An Uncommon Mom in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - What is the most common thing moms do? Take care of their kids? That's what Susan Galleymore was doing when I met her. The uncommon thing was that she'd traveled halfway around the world, from San Francisco to Baghdad, to take care of her son. Nick is a U.S....

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Greetings from Fallujah!

Preamble: April 28, 2003: U.S. soldiers kill 18 Fallujah school children. Act I April, 2004: In the attack on Fallujah, which ended after 3 weeks in defeat of the "coalition": "U.S. forces bombed the power plant at the beginning of the assault; ...The town was...

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A Thoughtful Look at Iran

The neoconservative hawks in the Bush administration demand regime change in Iran. The nation's supposed ties to Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist groups coupled with its attempts to build a nuclear weapon motivate such prescriptions. Of course, the (sometimes)...

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UN Body Rejects Censure, Threatens Revolt

UNITED NATIONS - The 191-member UN General Assembly, the largely ignored policymaking body of the United Nations, is threatening to derail a slew of mostly Western European and U.S.-inspired resolutions condemning human rights violations. A key committee of the...

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