The headline of the UPI story detailing President Hamid Karzai's recent trip to Washington – "Afghanistan is Bush's good news" – was in stark contrast to content of the piece, which started out tellingly: "Standing beside President George W....
Was Reagan the First Neoconservative? I've listened to a lot of talk from just about everybody this past week, but this piece by Buchanan is by far the most evenhanded, the best yet. Thanks for your insight – and your fairness. The quicker we remove the neocons...
I wrote a column a ways back that infuriated a lot of Asians out there. Friends here in Sichuan said I had gone over the top and I apologized for what I thought was a pretty poor attempt to explain stereotypes in China. I have thought about that column for a while now...
ARBIL – A year after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the mountains and plains of northern Iraq are still covered in landmines planted by the former Iraqi dictator's regime during the 1980s. That is when he fought a decade-long war with Iran and many battles with...
WASHINGTON – "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda," U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters Thursday, is "because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." This is what logicians call a...
With all this talk about a draft, I thought that, as a professional soldier, I'd throw my two cents worth in. Let me begin by saying that I'm against a general draft for a number of reasons. Conscription makes free citizens into slaves and the property of the state. A...
You remember the Cox Committee, don't you? It was a bipartisan commission established by Congress in 1998 to look into how a billion or so rice-farmers – aka, the People's Republic of China – had managed to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles as well...
TOKYO – The commitment made by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the international community that the country's Self Defense Forces (SDF) would join a planned multinational force in Iraq, has far-reaching implications globally. According to analysts,...
DUBAI – A series of escalating spats in the Gulf waters between Iran, on one hand, and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, on the other, has cast a large shadow over relations between these countries. Officials from the three Gulf countries and many foreign...
From Dahr's weblog BAGHDAD – Dr. Faiq Amin, the manager of the Medico Legal Institute (i.e., the Baghdad morgue), told me a couple of days ago that their maximum holding capacity is 90 bodies. Since Janurary an average of over 600 bodies each month have been...
