Ramadi – A Delicate Lid

The city of Ramadi, about 120km (75 mi.) west of Baghdad, appears to be much more stable than nearby Fallujah, where the U.S. military currently won’t enter the city after the failed siege of April. Here U.S. military patrols still roam the streets and attacks...

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The Buck Stops … Where? Mr. Kaplan's article confirmed something that even I would have been hard-pressed to really believe about the government, though I don't know why it should surprise me. His reference to the March 2 NBC report that the administration...

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Better to Be Children

We would do better if, instead of being sheep and complacently accepting the words of politicians as edicts from God, we were like children who always ask that innocent question, "Why?" Over and over we hear the statement "The United States cannot afford to fail in...

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The Secret of Abu Ghraib

Thank the gods for Seymour Hersh, that's all I can say. Without him, the truth about what went on at Abu Ghraib prison – and the dark forces behind it – would probably still be locked away in a safe somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon. His latest...

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The Crimes at Abu Ghraib Are Not the Worst

Recent days have been hectic ones for the Supreme Rulers in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have ceased their accustomed swaggering, put on their most somber faces, and issued one apology after another for the...

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End Self-Delusion

If you have any sense of justice, do not allow the United States government to make scapegoats out of a few enlisted people at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. That, of course, is exactly what Washington has in mind, and it has already begun the process. When this story...

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