When the anchor of public television's main news program goes out of his way to tell viewers that he's setting the record straight about a recent historic event, the people watching are apt to assume that they're getting accurate information. But with war intensifying...
Because we forget that the United States was once considered a rogue nation exporting terrorism, the nation's senior officials risk making serious policy mistakes today. The United States a rogue nation? Though it may be hard to believe, before the Civil War, people...
George W. Bush wants to "change the world": he said so a few dozen times the other night in his Q&A with reporters. That was his ultimate answer to everything. When confronted at his recent press conference with the embarrassing paucity, in retrospect, of the case...
I keep trying not to take it personally, the fact that this president annoys me more and more every time I see him in public. There's the slow explanation part, over-pronouncing words, as if addressing a rather slow-witted fourth-grader, when he thinks he's explaining...
Lawrence Kaplan, neo-Jacobin ideologue and shameless apologist for the carnage in Iraq, claims that Americans wouldn't mind having 30,000 of our troops killed in Iraq if it achieves Bush's "strategic objectives." No one knows any longer what these objectives are...
Almost a month since the pogrom in Kosovo, both its consequences and lessons seem to have faded from memory. Indeed, the occupation authorities are rewarding violence and appeasing its perpetrators, even as they grow more bold and hostile. They, too, see reports from...
In the twelve-course meal that is the war in Iraq, America has just been served the first entree. The fight with Iraq's state armed forces was merely the amuse-bouche. The subsequent guerilla war with the Baath, as distasteful as we found it, was still just the...
This is "George Bush's Vietnam," railed Sen. Kennedy last week in a charge that angered Sen. John McCain. And by any traditional measure of war, McCain is right. While Vietnam lasted a decade and took 58,000 U.S. lives, Iraq has lasted a year and cost 650 US dead....
If you need any more proof of how badly the occupation in Iraq is going, look no further than a couple of recent articles in those hotbeds of Bush-bashing, the Weekly Standard and the American Spectator. Neocon Pollyanna Fred Barnes, writing in the former last week,...
When terrorists plan to strike America, should they call in advance and make reservations? If not - if they aren't specific about time and place - should President George W. Bush and the rest of the federal government be held blameless for failing to stop them? That's...
