The Wrong War

There exists "no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States." There were contacts between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but "they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship." In 1994, Baghdad rebuffed approaches...

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More Neocraziness

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission – a bipartisan Commission established by Congress in 2000 "to investigate, analyze and provide recommendations to Congress on the economic and national security implications of the U.S.-China relationship"...

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Afghanistan: The Forgotten War

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....

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Colin Powell’s Vanishing Credibility

Memo To: Tim Russert, Meet the Press From: Jude Wanniski Re: Your Powell interview It has been a week since I watched you interview Secretary of State Colin Powell on Meet the Press June 13, but I did want to calm down before I wrote some complaints in this space. I...

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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...

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Saddam’s Enablers May Also Go on Trial

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...

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Bush Team Tries to Brazen It Out

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...

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Maybe We Do Need a Draft

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...

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More Bush Doctrine Fallout

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...

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The Sage-King Mindset

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...

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