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anti-Americanism n: a neurosis associated with the followers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams anti-Semite n: 1 : a person who concedes that Arabs might be human 2 : whomever David Frum happens to be arguing with at any given time Ba’athist n: an Iraqi who favors self-determination for his or her … Continue reading “Dude, You Got, Like, Totally Plamed”

L ‘affaire Plame is about breaking the law, about arrogance, about the ordinary viciousness that suffuses the corridors of power – but its real significance is overlooked in the frenzy to find the perpetrator and tie him or her to the White House. The problem with this theory is that George W. Bush is the … Continue reading “L’AFFAIRE PLAME”

A blue-ribbon panel on U.S. public diplomacy is calling on President George W Bush not only to sharply increase funding to more effectively explain U.S. policy to an increasingly hostile Islamic world, but also to narrow the gap between U.S. values and what Washington actually does in the region. That is the distinct – albeit … Continue reading “It’s the Policy, Stupid”

So there’s a Presidential election Sunday in Chechnya. Haven’t heard that much about it? Not surprising; it’s not much of a contest, really. As the Radio Netherlands website drolly put it in an article entitled “Soviet-style Polls in Chechnya," “There’s no question that Akhmad Kadyrov will win Sunday’s presidential election in Chechnya. The current head … Continue reading “Looking Into Putin’s Soul”

To say that there’s blood in the water and the sharks are circling around the Bush administration’s Iraq policy would be understatement at this point. It’s more like a blood bank that’s been dropped into the water, the sharks have taken the first bites, and Amazonian piranhas are clamoring for visas on an expedited basis. … Continue reading “The Sharks Are Circling in Washington”

Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy often encounter charges of "anti-Americanism." Even though vast numbers of people in the United States disagree with Washington’s assumptions and military actions, some pundits can’t resist grabbing onto a timeworn handle of pseudo-patriotic demagoguery. In a typical outburst before the war on Iraq last spring, Rush Limbaugh told his … Continue reading “Unmasking the Ugly ‘Anti-American’”

This past April 18, India’s Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee raised many hopes when he offered Pakistan “the hand of friendship” from a public rally at Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir. The greatest of these hopes was that South Asia’s long, dark night of confrontation, bitter hostility and dangerous brinkmanship that began with a … Continue reading “India, Pakistan Spar Under a Lengthening Nuclear Shadow”

Surely it isn’t modesty that makes the neocons shy away from the spotlight. Yet how else can we explain Joshua Muravchik‘s shock at the sudden discovery that entering the term “neoconservative” into Lexis-Nexis will cause an aborted search because “the number of entries exceeds the program’s capacity”? That’s what’s so unique about the neocons: any … Continue reading “THE NEO-JACOBINS”

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The Bush administration’s Iraq policy seems to be imploding rather affectively without much help from me this week. President Bush’s speech at the U.N. last week seems to have received the reception it deserved from the thugs standard-issue commentators are pleased to call the "international community" – about what you’d expect from somebody who says: … Continue reading “Remember Bosnia?”